Ok then, Bert, if you have any influence perhaps you could get the US admin to adopt your position. As things stand, the US wouldn't extradite to the UK in the circs I cited, and Iran wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of securing such an extradition.

When you moan that other countries don't take appropriate action, what you really mean is that they don't take action judged by you and the US to be appropriate. Most countries for instance don't go in for judicial killing, and fewer than half-a-dozen admit to executing those who are juveniles at the time of their crimes. Amog them the Yemen and China. I expect you salute them both.

Face it, the US position is based on main force and will be upheld only as long as the US remains the world's superpower. Those days are now limited, and with the end in sight we can already see the US starting to fragment, a la the terminal throes of most preceding empires. Witness the present rumpus about justice Florida-style, and the recently demonstrated readiness of Rick Perry in Texas to defy Federal law. And if the fad for culling students runs on unchecked, the US will soon be unmanageable by the standards of most civilised states.