Right, so tiny violins at the ready folks, because things seem to be going all wrong again for Benjamin Netanyahu.

All of this war against Iran was meant to leave Tehran battered, isolated, and standing outside the Middle East's version of a nightclub as if they’d just turned up wearing Crocs.

Instead, Saudi Arabia has signed a new defence pact with Türkiye and Pakistan, Iranian officials have been strutting around as if they’d just won some sort of a diplomatic jackpot over it, and Saudi Arabia's clever workaround for Hormuz to get away from Iran, has just ended up with a problem that could put them in a Great Dane level of diplomatic doggie doo doo in terms of the scale.

That workaround is their East-West pipeline. Their plan B to get the oil out. It allows the Saudis to move oil across the kingdom to Yanbu, load it onto tanke ...