As a pure matter of fact, it is perfectly true and fair to concede that the world is a safer place without Iran close to possession of a nuclear weapon. The very possibility that it might acquire such a weapon of mass destruction has destabilised the whole of the Middle East for decades.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may well have been exaggerating Iran’s progress towards its ultimate aim, but he was not wrong to highlight the dangers, even if his own hypocrisy, as the leader of a nation with an undeclared nuclear arsenal, is itself deplorable.
