Iran's hardliners will be delighted with Trump's move to sack John Bolton
he sour exchange of tweets between Donald Trump and his ex-national security adviser offered a stark insight into the tensions inside the president’s inner circle. The smile of content from Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, at the fall of his rival for the president’s ear told its own story. But the significance of goes beyond the navel-gazing of Washington insiders. Bolton had few friends in Washington, but he had none in Iran – at least not in the Islamic Republic’s official circles. The fall of a man widely seen as an uber-hawk has ...
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