So, what do virtuous, liberal, democrats do now? This is the question of our age. Each new event, whether domestic or international, forces us to confront it.

Take Iran. Should we throw petals at the feet of “peacemakers” Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu? Because they have despatched Iran’s theocratic despot and his vile buddies?

Decades ago a feminist psychotherapist, a friend of mine, self-immolated in a street in Tehran, in protest against the violently enforced dress codes for females. Citizens who rebelled against the theocratic controllers were savagely punished. Artists, teachers, writers, human rights lawyers have been indefinitely imprisoned; gay people hanged; women who refused the headscarf beaten, others killed by “morality” police. Egalitarians and activists have yearned for this to end. But they are revolted by the American and Israeli crusade to achieve “regime change from the skies” as Keir Starmer pithily, and unusually courageously, described it.

Some of the possible “winners” of such regime change are equally distasteful. The man who would be Shah, crown prince Reza Pahlavi, an exile in the US, profusely thanked the US President and tweeted that his “heart aches” for the three Americans killed and five wounded so far. Not, at the time of writing, for the 165 dead, according to Iranian state media, after a girls’ school was bombed to shreds. Or other innocent victims. Pahlavi’s........

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