Jack Straw says that military action against Iran is ‘inconceivable’. The President of Iran says he wants to wipe Israel ‘off the map’. Why doesn’t an interviewer ask the Foreign Secretary whether, if Iran tried to do this, military action would still be inconceivable? If he says yes (and if that is the policy of the West), then Iran will know that it can go ahead.
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