Can a deal be done to contain Iran's nuclear programme?
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
High-level delegates from the US and Iran are in Oman for talks about Iran's nuclear programme. We'll hear a view from Tehran. Also on the programme: after a week of uncertainty over Donald Trump's tariffs, we hear how the Ancient Romans used a similar policy; and in the Colombian city of Medellín, an unusual reminder to put out your garbage.
(Photo: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian visits Iran's nuclear achievements exhibition in Tehran, Iran on April 9, 2025. Credit: REUTERS)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to news out from the BBC World Service coming to live from London with me, Sean Lay. |
| 0:08.8 | They may not talk, they may not actually meet, but the fact that Iran's foreign minister and Donald Trump's envoy are expected to be in the same building at the same time in the Gulf state of Amman today is a small sign of progress. After all, |
| 0:22.6 | in his first term in office, President Trump pulled out of a deal that was signed by Iran and the |
| 0:27.3 | Obama administration in 2015 to limit Iranian nuclear enrichment in return for relief from sanctions. |
| 0:34.4 | If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. In just a short period of time, |
| 0:42.1 | the world's leading state sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world's |
| 0:49.1 | most dangerous weapons. Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran |
| 0:59.4 | nuclear deal. That was President Trump speaking in his first term in May 2018. Now, with the United |
| 1:07.3 | States and Israel fearful that the progress Iran has made towards processing |
| 1:11.2 | weapons-grade uranium and with the restrictions imposed under the existing deal set to expire |
| 1:16.5 | later this year, there's an incentive to talk, the US to keep Iran constrained and Iran |
| 1:22.1 | wanting to avert the threat of being bombed. Let's speak now live to our chief international |
| 1:26.7 | correspondent, Leis Doucette. Lees speak now live to our chief international correspondent, |
| 1:33.7 | Lees Susset. Lees, there seems to be a combination of here of huge distrust, but also very high stakes. Yes, both of those, but importantly at this moment, they at least are in the same city. |
| 1:41.6 | And we've just seen on social media a post from Iran's foreign ministry |
| 1:47.2 | spokesperson saying indirect talks have begun. And he said that we will be at a location |
| 1:54.5 | planned by the Omani hosts and they will be in separate rooms. So confirming what Iran has said all along that at this stage, |
| 2:03.9 | and we don't know how long this stage will be, it is indirect talks. |
| 2:07.4 | Iran believes that's the best way forward. |
| 2:09.7 | Of course, what we have heard from President Trump himself, |
| 2:12.6 | from the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, |
| 2:15.0 | is that they will be direct talks face to face. We'll know by the |
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