Iran says it will brief China this week in advance of a third round of talks with the United States on its nuclear programme.

This, as Iranian officials separately accused Israel of seeking to “undermine and disrupt the diplomatic process”. 

And let’s not forget President Donald Trump’s take on things; threatening to attack Iran unless it reaches a new deal swiftly that would prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.

It’s been a long time since we imagined a mushroom cloud hovering over some far horizon, but given these latest clashes between agitated nuclear powers could we be staring down the barrel of WWIII?

In this episode, we’ll gauge the latest threat level with Ali Ansari, Professor in Modern History with reference to Iran at the University of St Andrews, and then crossing the Atlantic to speak to Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who served on Iran's nuclear diplomacy team - he’s currently a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University to garner their thoughts.

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