With no great sense of history, and still less shame, Donald Trump signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Iran in the grand setting of the Palace of Versailles, flanked by his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and Emmanuel Macron, president of the French Republic.
It was a historic, if odd, moment. There was no representative from the Islamic Republic to join the US president in the brief ceremony, and the “treaty” had already been agreed by the vice-president, JD Vance, and signed off by both sides “digitally”, with Israel glaringly excluded.
