The near-march to war over Iran shows just how
dangerous it is to rely upon personal charm and boardroom style bullying in the
conduct of foreign policy. When President Donald Trump last year overturned the
agreement with Iran to stop its nuclear enrichment programme, he obviously had
no idea of what would come next. It was a yawning policy gap through which
ultra hawks like recently sacked National Security Adviser John Bolton tried to
launch a war with Iran on the specious pretext of its
