-???????????????? Restricting European Union export credits for Iran, which are presently worth about nine billion pounds annually.The key problem is that even if all these steps were adopted tomorrow, they would take a long time to impose real costs on Iran. Bitter experience shows that economic and financial restrictions of the kind the Tories are suggesting usually take years if not decades to compel a regime to reappraise its policies. But Cameron and Hague also said that Iran could be only six or 12 months away from having the ability to build a nuclear bomb. It makes no sense to propose sanctions that would take years to bite while also warning that in six or 12 months time it could be too late because Iran will have acquired the means to make a bomb.There is one possible measure which would have immediate effect on Iran. As I , Iran may have the second largest oil reserves in the world, but its refineries are in such bad shape that it must import 40 per cent of its petrol. This dependency on imports grows every year as domestic demand for petrol rises. If the West really wants to paralyse Iran overnight, halting these imports would be the obvious course.David Cameron has introduced a pre-Cabinet meeting for his Tory Cabinet colleagues. The idea is to get them together before the main event on Tuesday morning to talk politics. In fact, it's a political Cabinet, but every week. And that's presumably when Michael Gove laid into Theresa May for disloyalty, as reported by and this morning. The Education Secretary is known for his willingness to pile in to his colleagues - some say in fact that he is notoriously uncollegiate, even if charmingly so - but even by his standards this willingness to call out the Home Secretary is a bold move. He didn't name her apparently, but no one had any doubt who he meant. Set aside the irresistible theatrics: what does this incident tell us? For one, it confirms that Team Dave are fizzing about Mrs May's power lunge. Mr Cameron has long nurtured doubts about her effectiveness as Home Secretary, so he must be particularly peeved by her posturings. Second, it reminds us that Mrs May has rivals, and they will come for her. She is now a target. And third, it highlights a source of growing danger for Dave. He can ill afford to have his Cabinet become a battleground for ambition.

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