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.

Science has long sought a way to get inside the minds of those who have lost the ability to speak.

An impressive new effort gets closer, not by trying to read people's thoughts, but by working out what they're attempting to say.

And around the world, British food gets a bit of a bad rap.

The reasons for that stretch back to the Industrial Revolution.

But the truth is, back then as now, much of British food isn't even that British.

First up, though,

Today marks a year since America pulled out of the nuclear deal with Iran.

Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. We will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction. The anniversary isn't passing without event. Iran has announced its own

partial withdrawal from the nuclear deal today. Shishong Joshi is the economist's defense editor.

That comes just days after the Americans moved an aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf

on the basis of intelligence of what they said were potential Iranian attacks on American forces.

And Michael Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, has turned up unexpectedly in Iraq, which is one of the main U.S. Iran sites of competition in the region.

So it's all kicking off in the Middle East.

And it's been a year since President Donald Trump withdrew America from the nuclear deal, the JCPOA.

Run me through again why he chose to do that and what the relations have been since.

The JCPOA was a joint comprehensive plan of action.

This was the fancy name given to the nuclear deal that Iran signed with six world powers back in 2015

to cap its nuclear program, which many people feared was racing towards a nuclear bomb,

in exchange for trade and economic relations with the West.

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