Not to be Trusted

Despite the pragmaticising moderativity of the Recrudescent Imperium among others, the mad mullahs of Iran remain fanatically, irrationally opposed to negotiating with terrorists. The Trumpster, having unilaterally torpedoed the international agreement over Iran's alleged future nuclear deterrent, was hoping for a photo-opportunity; but the Iranian president evidently has one or two outdated scruples about the kind of company he cares to be seen in. The holder of Her Majesty's great office of state for Wogs, Frogs and Huns had a bit of a blather about "bringing into scope Iran's wider destabilising activities," by which he meant the recent non-fatal attack on an oil facility by the people on whom the head-chopping House of Saud is using all those shiny British-sold weapons; but it appears that the mad mullahs are too far gone to heed even the diplomacy of Dominic Raab.