Letters | 17 May 2018

Iran’s hated regime

Sir: I disagree with the analysis of Christopher de Bellaigue (‘Trump’s folly’, 12 May). The Iranians I know, well aware of the hardship caused by sanctions, nevertheless welcome them as a demonstration of international condemnation of the Tehran regime. The idea that the Iranian people would rally round the mullahs in the face of disapproval by the West is wrong. My Iranian friends plead for our moral support in their efforts to overthrow their hated regime, which is impoverishing their country by its military adventurism abroad and has robbed many families of loved ones through imprisonment and executions.
David Harris

London SW13

Can’t fudge the border

Sir: Lionel Shriver’s article is correct in recognising that the EU is responsible for its side of the UK-Irish border after Brexit, not Britain’s (‘The Irish border is the EU’s problem, not ours’, 12 May). But the suggestion that the Good Friday Agreement could be fudged or changed in any way, however reasonable it may sound, is a dangerous one that would result in social and political disaster.