The previously agreed international position that Iran should not become a nuclear power, full stop, has now been smashed by the very country that established it. Last weekend, President Obama said that “the idea that Iran… would just continue to get more and more nervous about sanctions and military threats, and ultimately just say, OK, we give in – I think that does not reflect an honest understanding of the Iranian people and the Iranian regime.” Thus are 35 years of an anti-Western world view rewarded by the “Great Satan”. Supporting it all, William Hague, our Foreign Secretary, told the House of Commons that the agreement was the triumph of “sheer persistence”. Hansard surely wrote that down wrong: he must have said “Shia persistence”.