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The world is a vastly different and more dangerous place than in 2015, and in few areas is that truism more pertinent than in Iran’s relations with the West. In July of that year there were cheerful slaps on the back between John Kerry, then the US secretary of state, his British counterpart Philip Hammond, Iran’s foreign minister at the time, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and a host of European worthies when the deal known in UN-speak as the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA) was agreed. It set limits to Iran’s nuclear programme, with its implicit threat to Israel, but President Obama, and Britain too, saw it as more than that: the heralding of a new era of dialogue and co-operation between Tehran and the
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