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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened Iran with unprecedented sanctions. The 大象传媒 Persian service's business correspondent Amir Paivar gauges reaction in Iran to the move, aimed at preventing the country from developing a nuclear weapon. Also in the programme, Italy is inching closer to a governing coalition. Italian senator Emma Bonino, a former minister of international commerce, gives us her perspective on the proposed deal. Economic growth in Nigeria has slowed. Bismark Rewane is an economist at the Financial Derivatives Company in Lagos, and explains why the country's economy is lagging. We meet some of India's female athletes hoping to make their country a sporting superpower. Plus our new regular contributor Stephanie Hare explains why disobedience at work might actually benefit some companies.

(Picture: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Picture credit: EPA.)