Right, so that was that then. Donald Trump’s latest triumph in world peace. Twenty-one days old, the deal that wasn’t quite a deal, just a Memorandum of Understanding and it’s already lying face-down in the gutter.

Three weeks ago, this was a win. A breakthrough. Proof of the great dealmaker at work again. Sixty days of negotiations, an end to military operations, shipping through Hormuz, Iranian oil moving again. Trump had done it. Of course he had. Everybody clap.

Then it all went to bits last night, it seems Trump couldn’t let the opportunity of Iranians in mourning over the funeral arrangements of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pass him by. The Treasury pulled the oil authorisation for Iran. Then CENTCOM hit more than 80 targets across Iran, but if he thought Iran wasn’t ready for him he was soon proven sorely wrong. Iran launche ...