How close is Iran to having a nuclear weapon? | The Economist
April 15, 2026
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as posted by the channelDonald Trump’s central war aim in Iran is to stop the country’s nuclear-weapons programme. But the conflict may have aggravated the nuclear threat. Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director-general of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, sits down with David Rennie, The Economist’s geopolitics editor, to discuss the current state of Iran’s nuclear-weapons programme and what—if anything— could stop the regime from building a bomb.
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