Sarah Firth

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Today with David McCullagh · US and Iran · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

And the Trump administration, David, to this point has failed to find a way to deal with this.

So the fate of Iran's enriched uranium that remains unresolved, the verification mechanisms.

And if you listen to experts around this and people who were involved in the JCPOA, they say that basically this only works, you can sign anything on Fridays.

saying anything, basically, right, then the 60-day period is entered into where they will deal with this thorny issue of Iran's nuclear program, the fate of the enriched uranium.

But if you don't have verification mechanisms, if you don't have oversight, if you don't have teams on the ground, then all of it is essentially meaningless because you've got no way to double check things.

So, you know, there is a possibility that it produces a tougher agreement.

But there are also huge unanswered questions at the moment about those verification mechanisms and about the oversight.

It's a huge problem.

You've heard President Trump himself describe Netanyahu as a difficult guy.

And we've seen more publicly the sort of, I don't want to say rift is probably going too far, the tension between the two leaders and the two very close allies.

Look,

even if the strait reopens and even if Israel holds off its attacks on Lebanon, I think, again, the lessons being learned by key allies across the region, they have seen how quickly a unilateral American decision, along with Israel, can put the global economy at risk.

So, you know, Netanyahu, we've seen pushback many times on this.

And again...

you know just to come back to the fact that we're asking these questions of the white house about verification about the details of the deal we're relying on social media posts from president trump right now true social posts and yesterday you know it was a day of up and downs on sort of understanding whether or not something's going to get signed now we're being told it's in person in switzerland on friday fantastic but that then kicks off the 60-day period which deals with the biggest issue of all

which is one of the aims that was set out by President Trump at the beginning.

But David, you know, in all of this, the Iranian people, the fate of the Iranian people, what's happened to the Iranian people during this time?

I think we've well passed 100 days now, I think, of this war.

You know, what has happened to them, what they're thinking.

There's been some incredible reporting from people who've managed to get in there.

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