2025-12-01
26 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
It's getting harder to keep track of all the tie-ups between AI model makers and chip makers and old-school blue chip tech firms.
We pick through the shifting network and ask how it's all likely to shake out.
And in other news about an unstoppable future,
those who send holiday cards should start thinking about going digital.
There'll soon be at least one place where the paper kind just won't get delivered.
First up though.
We talk a lot on the show about what's happening to Iran,
about the now long defunct JCPOA nuclear deal,
how in June American forces tried to destroy its nuclear sites with airstrikes,
how its proxies in the region, the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, have been weakened in recent years.
But really only rarely do we talk about what's happening in Iran.
The last best look we got was in 2019, when my colleague Nicholas Pelham was detained,
imprisoned for a few days and then oddly free to wander around for seven weeks after a daily interrogation.
Now he and our digital editor Adam Roberts have gone back and were given a rare on-the-record interview with Abbas Arrachi,
the foreign minister.
What they saw is that Iran has changed, is changing,