Letter. Which side’s Tehran on? [0001]
Gaby Hinsliff (Dubai
) asks who might fail to have observed that ‘living a few hundred miles as the drone flies from Tehran might have risks’. Topping my list are British columnists innocent of any salient expertise and even mere cartography, especially those who seemingly are unaware that Copenhagen is closer to St Petersburg (713 miles) than Dubai is to Tehran (767 miles), fail to wonder whether Iran might fire drones from the side of the country next to Dubai, and probably could not find Bandar Abbas (162 miles away) on a map.