If you want to see Sir John Sawers, the new head of MI6, in action, check him out in this steely confrontation with Iran’s foreign minister, from Norma Percy’s recent excellent documentary, Iran and the West. The incident is 1 minute 15 seconds in.
I recommend watching the whole episode by the way – fascinating interviews with Putin, Khatami, Straw, Armitage, Fischer, Bolton and others. Sawers is one of the main interviewees, and later in the programme tells of a secret deal Iran offered him in London: let us enrich uranium, and we’ll stop killing your soldiers in Iraq.
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