The Global Story: How to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday, President Trump met with Iranian leaders to sign an initial memorandum of understanding towards ending the months-long war. In a press conference after the signing, Trump was triumphant. Specifically, he touted the deal’s firmness on one of the US’s key priorities: ensuring that Iran can never develop a nuclear weapon. Whilst Iran has agreed to “not procure or develop nuclear weapons," there are many questions left unanswered. What does it actually look like to police the weapons programmes Today, we speak to someone intimately familiar with the weapons inspection process: President of the Institute for Science and International Security, David Albright. In the 1990s, Albright worked in Iraq with the UN, investigating the nation’s weapons programme under Sadaam Hussein.
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| 0:35.2 | every day where the world in America meet. And as a bonus for your feed, |
| 0:39.4 | we're bringing you one of our best episodes of the week. After months of fighting, this is the week |
| 0:44.5 | that the US and Iran signed a deal aimed at ending the war. And the deal stipulates that Iran |
| 0:50.9 | will never have a nuclear weapon. But we still had a lot of questions about how you even |
| 0:55.9 | enforce that. So my co-host, Asma Khalid, called up an expert, someone who worked in Iraq |
| 1:01.7 | investigating the country's nuclear weapons program under Saddam Hussein. If you like this episode, |
| 1:07.6 | then we also had a great in-depth conversation with the BBC's chief international |
| 1:11.9 | correspondent, Lee Doucette, about who won the war. You can find that in our feed and a lot more |
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| 1:23.7 | Mr. President, please, just one question for French TV and the RN deal. |
| 1:30.0 | Just one question. |
| 1:31.2 | You signed the deal? |
| 1:32.6 | You signed the deal? |
| 1:34.7 | You signed the MOU? |
| 1:35.4 | You signed it. |
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