The West cannot do business with Iran | The Spectator

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : But be in no doubt: he acted, in effect, as an agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
51% : The United States should cease its latest attempt to accommodate the nation-state of 'Death to America' and should focus its energies on supporting those forces in Iran - the young, the educated, the metropolitan - who want to topple the Islamic Republic in favour of a more democratic, more pro-western set-up.
49% : The Iran scholar Elton L. Daniel notes that Kharrazi's statement was 'accepted as sufficient for the United Kingdom to justify upgrading its relations with Iran', but prominent religious and political office-holders continued to uphold the fatwa, including Tehran's ambassador to London.
45% : Following further concessions proposed earlier this week by the EU (of course) that would lighten sanctions on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), it looked like Iran could secure similarly favourable terms in the second incarnation of the JCPOA.
42% : He might never even have set foot in Tehran.
42% : Yet it is in the interests of the United States to demonstrate that Iran cannot bring violence to its streets with impunity.
29% :Iran is a thug state, a rogue regime, a terror gang impersonating a government.
16% : Might it be because Tehran is agonisingly close to reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the 2015 nuclear deal signed by Barack Obama but cancelled by Donald Trump.

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