The likely next US secretary of state cut a very different figure on Tuesday from the politician whose most memorable foreign policy comments of 2008 were her threat to “obliterate” Iran and her imagined memory of coming under gunfire in Bosnia.
Speaking before an all-but- adoring Senate foreign relations committee, Hillary Clinton showed that she had much more time to research international affairs than when she was sparring on the Democratic campaign trail with Barack Obama, now president-elect.

Iran: 30 years on 

