Centrifugal force: attacks on Iran
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Another strike, evidently on a nuclear-fuel centrifuge facility, is being blamed on Israel—and, by extension, America. It is just the kind of tactic that the abandoned nuclear deal would have obviated. Eastern Europe’s treatment of its drug users runs counter to the “harm-reduction” policies that Europe pioneered decades ago. And faith-based streaming services get a big slice of the pious.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:10.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:16.0 | In the 1980s, Europe pioneered so-called harm reduction policies to tackle drug abuse, |
| 0:23.6 | a model of care over punishment. |
| 0:26.4 | That's not how things work in Eastern Europe today, |
| 0:29.5 | where a social intolerance policy aims to make drug users' lives miserable. |
| 0:35.0 | And lockdowns have driven vast growth in streaming services of all sorts. One |
| 0:40.2 | genre with striking gains is religious content. Living scriptures, pure flicks, godify. It's all good |
| 0:47.6 | clean fun, and it may well end up appealing to more than just the faithful. But first... |
| 0:56.0 | Tensions between Iran and Israel arising this week. |
| 1:05.0 | On July 2nd, there was a mysterious explosion at an Iranian nuclear facility. |
| 1:10.0 | Suspitions mounted that it was no accident and that Israel might be responsible. |
| 1:16.0 | Iran has been ramping up its nuclear program since 2018, |
| 1:19.8 | when America withdrew from an international deal crafted to contain those ambitions. |
| 1:24.0 | We cannot prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure |
| 1:32.3 | of the current agreement. Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw |
| 1:40.6 | from the Iran nuclear deal. |
| 1:44.1 | Many condemned the withdrawal. |
| 1:46.8 | The Iran nuclear agreement was the best way to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear |
| 1:52.2 | armed state. |
| 1:55.0 | Threatening this agreement does not isolate Iran. |
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