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IF EVERY CLOUD has its silver lining, then the spike in demand for private jet transport in Iran is the single bright point in what is happening in that benighted country.

“Amazing what a little all-out war does for the desire to travel, particularly among the ruling class of a belligirent,” said an international expert on the subject.

Murmur Ceaucescu of Change-your-regime – seriously.com insists the correlation between battle strain and travel has been tried and tested: “The distribution curve is there to see. The uglier the battle becomes, the more planes, trains and automobiles – often carrying regime members and/or their nearest and dearest – begin to move away from the zone of conflict at great speed.”