The most dangerous game
From our UK edition
There are four main players in the ongoing, and possibly accelerating, crisis, over Iran and its nuclear programme. There is, of course, the unelected yet ‘supreme’ leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has definitive say over the direction of Iran’s nuclear programme (Iran’s elected — in a fashion — president, the ludicrous Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has never had dispositive sway over it, and appears to be fading as a political power in any case). Then there is the American President, Barack Obama, who has so far done an incomplete job of convincing Iran’s leader that he means what he says when he says he will not allow Iran to possess nuclear weapons.
