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Some good came out of the negotiating chamber this week, but it concerned Iran rather than Greece

Plus: a woman for Barclays? And a new comedy of confusion for our times

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

18 July 2015

9:00 AM

As an occasional lecturer on the abstruse topic of the efficacy of sanctions in conflict resolution, I find myself much more excited about the emergence in Vienna of a settlement of the Iranian nuclear stand-off than I am about a third Greek bailout — which left-wingers of the Syriza party regard as a vindictive form of sanctions regime designed to humiliate the government in Athens and remove its fiscal autonomy.

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