Is our hostility to Iran helping fuel the fanatics?

I AM glad that the Apple TV series Tehran, made in Israel and set in the Iranian capital, treats Iranians as humans rather than as the shrouded or turbaned monsters some people imagine them to be.

But is its plot, based on a supposed Iranian desire to become a nuclear power, founded on fact or alarmism? I remain unsure that our attitude towards Iran is wise. The unending suspicion and hostility, in my view, only strengthen the Hezbollahtype fanatics of the Revolutionary Guard.

Sanctions hurt ordinary citizens, many of them pro-Western and anxious to be free, not the ruling elite.