Don’t Expect Boris Johnson to Have Our Back With Iran

With the U.K. already engulfed in its own Brexit crisis, it’s unlikely Johnson has any desire to stake his reputation on a conflict with Iran

Mitchell Prothero
GEN
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4 min readJul 29, 2019

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BBoris Johnson, the new prime minister of the United Kingdom, entered 10 Downing St. last week facing a seemingly impenetrable problem: how…

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Mitchell Prothero
GEN
Writer for

I write about foreign policy and security issues. Currently reside in Athens, Greece with a stray cat named Sybil.