Spectator Australia · Jawad Iqbal · Thursday 23 April 2026
A British commentator in the Australian Spectator speculates on Iranian leadership from London — the colonial franchise model exports opinion and calls it analysis.
The Spectator asking who's really leading Iran is like a bloke who's never been to the pub demanding to know who's behind the bar. Jawad Iqbal in London, published in Sydney, speculating about Tehran — three degrees of separation and not one of them useful. Trump extends a ceasefire and a British columnist reckons he's cracked the code. Mate, nobody's leading Iran to you because you're not in the room.