Rod Liddle writes:
Much though I like and respect Douglas Murray [bloody hell, why?], I
reckon he and other Ayatollohaphobes are wrong about the deal struck with
Iran.
If Iran’s willingness to negotiate was evidence that sanctions were
working, rather than a sudden flowering of the ‘let us all now be frenz’ spirit
in Tehran – then the sanctions have surely done their job. That was the point
of them.
This seems to me so straightforward as to be almost tautological.
There are risks with any deal, risks that the mullahs may indeed renege. But it
is hard to argue on a basis of fact, rather than prejudice, even if you are
living in Tel Aviv, that the world is not a slightly safer place right now as a
consequence of the deal. Even if the hapless Cathy Ashton was a party to it.
On a side issue, but of relevance: there is not a
country in the world – with the possible exception of Egypt – which has more
cause to be mistrustful of the UK and USA than does Iran. Our involvement,
especially, in that country has been unspeakably malign; greedy, vicious,
tyrannical.
Regardless or not of whether the Iranians are ‘genuine’ in their
apparent wish for a peaceful settlement, we should count our blessings that it
is possible to achieve some sort of accord.
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