Iran as a real problem just doesn’t rate, notwithstanding the blowviating and frothing of US tea-party republicans. (Vide Senator Ted Cruz, who yesterday said that the Iran deal could lead to ‘tens of millions of Americans’ dying. Western governments deal with the Iranian nuclear issue as if it was an ‘existential threat’ to the world as a whole when, as a real global threat, it just doesn’t register. Yet all-too-real global nuclear threats, including ones with civilization-ending and even species-ending potential, we manage to ignore as elephants in the room that we refuse to see in spite of their often very loud trumpeting. It is in reality far, far more important than the joint plan of action that now obsesses everyone.