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 BRITISH 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.