Nuclear deal with Iran would make the world a better place

Five good reasons why the West and Iran should come to an agreement – and the sooner the better

Columnist Venetia Rainey

The West has set up Iran as its arch-enemy - and not without reason: the US Embassy hostage crisis in 1979, Iran's funding of Hezbollah and Hamas, its role in propping up the utterly illegitimate Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad… and that’s before we get to the bad joke that was former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who lived by the motto that Israel’s very existence was “an insult to all humanity”.

But the situation in the Middle East today calls for detente, and the difficult negotiations to secure a deal to restrict Iran's nuclear capabilities offer the perfect opportunity.

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Venetia Rainey is a Middle East correspondent for TheWeek.co.uk based in Lebanon where she works for the national English-language paper, The Daily Star. Follow her on Twitter @venetiarainey.