On that score, I think it's important for me to just note that all of us, I think, are deeply disturbed by the crashing of the English embassy -- the embassy of the United Kingdom in Iran.
The oil-rich gulf kingdom, a Sunni Muslim country with deep suspicion of Iran's Shiite Muslim rulers, is believed to also be adamantly opposed to any deal that would benefit Iran.
"That is bound to affect the nature of the relationship" between the United Kingdom and Iran, then-British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said at the time, using a diplomatic formulation for expressing irritation.