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The deal that was reached when the negotiations were in full bloom, and that were then followed by the bombing by the United States and Israel at the end of February, that deal was a very good one. It was better than the one that Obama had reached in 2015, which was the Iran deal known as the JCPOA. But interestingly, by having gone to war, having all of us experience the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the effect of the Iranian bombing in the Gulf, this all means that the Americans are going to have to compromise more."

Unpredictability hurts US allies more than it threatens their adversaries because the US's relationships with its partners are based more on trust and predictability and yes, shared interests. And so the problem is his [Trump's] approach directly undermines one of the pillars of those Western relationships. And so I think we should be more used to it, but the implications of that are we should be relying on the US less."

Data centres can very much be legitimate military targets. We have also seen the US target data centres in Iran...militaries and security organisations have also been relying on large-scale cloud computing to enhance their own capabilities."