Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, MAY 26, 2025

Posted: 26th May 2025

The US-Iran talks around Tehran’s nuclear enrichment program seem deadlocked, but meetings will continue that experts say should stop being negotiated in public.

Should the US ban Iran’s bomb?

Having wrecked the original nuclear deal that restricted Iran’s uranium enrichment, the Trump administration is now trying to dismantle Tehran’s nuclear program altogether. But is the US, which claims it needs nuclear weapons as a “deterrent”, in any position to tell Iran it can’t have them, or even a civil nuclear program? This complex debate seems to be going in circles, despite US claims of progress, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. READ MORE

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