Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Many of Europe's public service broadcasters are struggling to keep their places as go-to

sources of unbiased news. Populists all over are eager to grab the mic, and to do so they're

undermining the broadcasters' leadership and their funding. And we take a look at an effort to

translate the prehistoric pagan poetry of Latvia.

The verses take a rigid four-line form, but those four lines are rich with meaning, with symbolism,

and with perspectives that might go back to the Bronze Age.

But first... Efforts to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions just got a lot harder.

On Saturday, the country announced that it had restarted advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment

at its Natanz nuclear facility.

By Sunday, an apparent act of sabotage took out the site's power, grinding it to a halt.

Iran has blamed the attack on Israel, which has made no official comment.

Israel's Prime Minister, Miniman Netanyahu, emphasized his country's opposition to Iran's nuclear

program.

Iran has never given up its quest for nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them.

And Iran consistently, consistently and outrageously, calls for Israel's annihilation and works towards that goal.

The nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, is an

international agreement signed in 2015, in which Iran agreed to limit its stocks and enrichment

of fuel.

President Donald Trump took America out of the deal in 2018, and talks for a re-entry began in Vienna last

week. But the escalating tensions between Iran and Israel have made that far trickier. It's not even

clear if tomorrow's talks will proceed. The attack seems to have been the result of an explosive

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