And that death will be as rich as Croesus, whom the Oracle at Delphi told that a great empire would fall if he crossed the Halys River. He did, and his own Lydian Empire fell to Cyrus the Great. Of Persia.
The old neocons have always wanted to take Iran, but we are seeing now why they have never quite tried to do it. Like Donald Trump, they are bad. But unlike Trump, they are not mad.
On 1 April, the Americans bombed their own once and putatively future embassy compound in Tehran, and while that may sound funny in view of the date, that attack broke the doors and windows of the nearby Orthodox church while collapsing the roof of its nursing home.
Last night, during Passover, the Rafi-Nia Synagogue in Tehran was completely destroyed by American bombing. Get out of that one. Or get out of the previous night's bombing of that city's Sharif University, an internationally important centre of science and technology, and something of a focal point for the student protests earlier this year.
Trump's threats are in themselves war crimes that call for the closure on British soil of the bases of which he was the Commander-in-Chief, both on the broader moral principle, and on the moral principle that was the duty to protect our people from retaliation.
Our Sovereign Base Area on Cyprus serves only to provide an excuse for intervention in the Middle East, and significantly endangers the Cypriot population, so we should cut our losses as has always been a British strength, by handing over that territory to the Republic of Cyprus. That has always been the preference of its small permanent population, who are Cypriot rather than British citizens. What a relief.
And a week ago, the Chief Justice of the British Indian Ocean Territory overturned the 2004 ban on Chagossians living on the Chagos Islands, as four of them were already doing. Therefore, Chagos is now inhabited by people, by a people, with the right to self-determination. Again, the perfect excuse to get out. As on Cyprus, we keep it only to do things that we would have no need to do if we did not have it.
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