CHRISTOPHER
BOOKER
Largely missed last week was the remarkable geo-political shift which took
place when President Trump lined up Saudi Arabia and Israel in what is being
called “a Nato-style coalition” against the country they all agree is at the
heart of most of the Middle East’s problems: Iran. Instead of his campaign
rhetoric seeming to oppose the US to all Muslims, he is now allied with half
the Muslim world.
This
followed the ghastly farce of the Iranian presidential election, when again we
were told that the victor, Hassan Rouhani, was a “moderate” against a
“hardliner”. As I have reported many times, Rouhani is an utterly ruthless
operator, who had presided since 2013 over a collapsing economy and what
Amnesty International called “a staggering execution spree”, murdering and
imprisoning so many dissidents that Iran has per capita the highest execution
rate in the world.
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