Now, even Joe Biden has abandoned all attempts at reviving the JCPOA, but undeterred, Josep Borrell, as the West’s leading appeaser, seems determined to press ahead with increasingly desperate efforts to resume talks.

The fact that the Iranian regime is openly supplying kamikaze drones and ballistic missiles to Russia for Putin to use in his illegal war in the Ukraine, and to the Houthis in Yemen for them to use in attacks on commercial shipping in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, seems to have been ignored by Borrell.

So too has the mullahs' direct involvement in the attempted assassination of Professor Alejo Vidal Quadras, a senior Spanish politician and former vice president of the European Parliament, who the Iranian regime tried to kill outside his home in Madrid last November.