Pretty much on a whim I was just looking through my entry archive, and as coincidence would have it, it is pretty much twenty years to the day since I wrote this entry about Iran. Back then, of course, George Dubya Bush was still president of America, and I wrote that I was worried that they were trying to make a nuke. I don’t think I had thought about the issue for ages before the current crisis; but the alarming thing is, the recent turn of events brought about by Trump has made the issue far more pressing and dangerous than it was when I wrote that entry. As Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart go into at some length here, Trump is clearly not mentally stable, and has ripped up what progress had been made towards resolving the complex issue more or less to suit his own vanity and arrogance. When dealing with a despotic theocracy, surely that’s the last thing we need.