As Middle East flares, Ukraine is still priority

THE Supreme Leader of Iran looks in a very precarious position this weekend and so does his autocratic and brutal extremist religious regime.

- BY HAMISH DE BRETTON-GORDON FORMER ARMY COLONEL

His proxies - Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis and militias in Iraq - who have been mostly responsible for instability in the Middle East for the last two decades, are almost expired.

Iran's quest to get "the bomb" which, judging by its terror activities, it would most likely use is evaporating in the embers of attacks on Natanz and other nuclear sites.

However, the erratic Donald Trump, self-styled with little to justify him as the greatest deal-maker on the planet, is now holding the region to ransom.