Iran’s eventual admission of its culpability in the shooting down of a Ukrainian jet puts into sharp focus the tragic consequences of its trigger happy preference for missile warfare. Even for a region as filled with drama as the Middle East, 2020 has so far seen more action than could reasonably expected across an entire calendar year – and it all centres on Tehran. The leaders of the Iranian regime have shown the world what many of us have long known them to be: instigators of instability who show a reckless indifference for human life.