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.

It's just 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.

Shoshank 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 US Secretary of State, has turned up unexpectedly in Iraq, which

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