Why is Britain ramping up sanctions against Iran? | Simon Jenkins

Sabre-rattling at Washington's behest is an idiocy, and likely to do little other than escalate the steps to open conflict

'The dog returns to its vomit, and the sow returns to her mire/ And the burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire." Kipling was right. Britain is out of Iraq and desperate to get out of Afghanistan. So why gird ourselves for a fight with Iran, a proud country of 75 million people with whom we cannot go to war without taking leave of our senses?

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