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OPINION: Macron is having a 'good war', but there is no good end to the Iran disaster
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We are in dire straits, writes John Lichfield. Donald Trump wants allies like France, and even rivals like China, to pull his chestnuts out of the boiling oil in the Straits of Hormuz.