YOUR columnist Steven King (May 26) writes that “regime change is then perhaps the only strategy that will deny Iran a nuclear bomb”. The alternative regime he has in mind is one led by the Green movement which, he says, merits our wholehearted support.

YOUR columnist Steven King (March 3) must be one of the few people in the world who doubts Israel’s responsibility for the extrajudicial killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.