In 2006, Hassan Rouhani boasted how, as Iran’s chief negotiator, he had “fooled” the West in talks over his regime’s plans to build nuclear weapons (the latest talks again ended in deadlock last week). Since he became Iran’s president last June, still hailed by the BBC and many others as a “moderate” and a “reformer”, his regime has stepped up its domestic reign of terror more than ever, with 800 hangings, including this month its widely publicised execution of a member of the PMOI. And as disturbing as anything was the Foreign Office’s seemingly complicit acceptance of the murderous deception of 3,000 PMOI exiles at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, organised by a sinister alliance between the Qods Force, Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and the man sent to Baghdad as his “special representative” by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.