The image of the invariably smiling Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif purring at the side of world leaders, together with the election of the so-called “reformist” president, Hassan Rouhani in 2013, have cultivated an image of the Iranian regime as modern, civilized, reasonable and a welcome antidote to the barbarism of IS and other Sunni jihadists. But a closer examination of the regime’s regional designs and behaviour reveals a dangerous malevolence. Under President Rou