But more fundamentally, this conflict is being run to some extent by extreme adherents of three of the world’s great religions — Islam, Christianity and Judaism — who happen to be in charge of Iran, the US and Israel, and they see it as some kind of battle between good and evil.
Both Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump have repeatedly described the Iranian regime as “evil”, and Iran’s leaders have been labelling the US the “Great Satan” since 1979 and the Zionists as evil.
And Iranian people probably haven’t forgotten that it was the CIA, with Britain’s MI6, that snuffed out their democracy in 1953 by organising a coup to replace the elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.
Westerners have.
But apart from a 40 per cent rise in the price of oil since February 28, global markets have been remarkably calm since the US and Israel attacked Iran,
