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Why is Iran’s nuclear programme so essential to its identity?

ByPatrick Wintour

Why does a country with large oil reserves feel such a need to have home-grown civil nuclear energy?Middle East crisis – live updatesIn October 1978, two leaders of the Iranian opposition to the British-backed shah of Iran met in the Paris suburbs of N…

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Trump talks of regime change in Iran and insists US ‘obliterated’ nuclear sites | First Thing

ByNicola Slawson

US president says strikes led to ‘monumental damage’ and questioned if the regime could ‘make Iran great again’. Plus, the dolls that have sparked moral panic in BrazilGood morning.Donald Trump raised the prospect of regime change in Iran and defended …

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JD Vance claims US is at war with Iran’s nuclear program, not Iran

ByEdward Helmore

Vice-president declines to double down on Trump’s stance that Iran’s nuclear sites were totally destroyedJD Vance has said the US is “not at war” with Iran – but is with its nuclear weapons program, holding out a position that the White House hopes to …