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With just 29 days left until the June 30 deadline for a nuclear accord between the US and Iran, several critical topics remain unresolved, including enrichment limits, sanctions relief, verification methods, and access for IAEA inspections. Prediction markets indicate a 57.5 percent chance that no agreement will be reached by the deadline. Iran's cooperation with the IAEA has been on hold since the conflict in February-March, which has prevented international inspectors from verifying the current status or scope of Iran's nuclear activities for several months. Officials from the UK, Germany, and France have emphasized that any agreement must ensure full IAEA inspection access, a necessity highlighted by the IAEA chief, who warned that without it, any deal would be merely illusory.

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00:00The June 30 deadline for a U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement is now 29 days away, and the gaps remain wide.
00:07The core issues blocking a deal are Iran's uranium enrichment level, the pace of sanctions relief,
00:13the verification mechanism, and, critically, IAEA inspection access.
00:18International inspectors have been locked out of Iranian nuclear sites since the February conflict.
00:24That means nobody outside Iran currently knows the exact status or extent of its nuclear program.
00:31The IAEA director himself has been blunt.
00:34Any agreement that doesn't include full inspection access is an illusion of an agreement.
00:40Prediction markets currently put the odds of no deal by June 30 at 57 percent.
00:46The Trump administration has not publicly stated what happens next if the deadline passes.
00:51For Americans, the implications run from oil prices to regional security to the long-term question
00:57of whether Iran has already crossed any nuclear thresholds that mattered.
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