Diplomacy isn’t fun any more, especially in the Middle East. Ask anyone working for the British embassy in Tehran, which, together with its compound elsewhere in the city, was ransacked this week by (obviously government-directed) “hard line” mobs. This, just as the Iranian Majlis was voting to condemn Britain’s imposition of (mild) financial sanctions — its members shouting “Death to England,” and other phrases suggesting neither sobriety nor deliberation.
We are in the fourth decade of Iran’s crackerjack, schizoid, apostate Shia regime. They would have nuclear weapons by now, almost certainly, were it not for Stuxnet attacks, other bespoke malware, huge implausible industrial accidents, and mysterious hits on their leading nuclear scientists. (If I knew who was doing this, I wouldn’t tell.)
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