There will always be an oft-decisive block of voters who are at least open to promises of dialing back the clock of progress from its current position in exchange for personal utopia, but we may still be able to turn the clock forward enough to make each inevitable relapse more and more manageable.
![As conflict with Iran flares up once again, traders in Al Aweer worry about this prospect.
“It’s a big problem if there’s no produce from Iran,” says Sultan Arefin, a trader at the market, opening his cool boxes of broccoli on ice that arrived at Dubai’s Al Hamriya Port from Iran in a container this morning. “Six years ago, Spanish broccoli was 20 dirhams [$5.50] per kilo, but since Iranian broccoli came on the market, it only costs 8 dirhams.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k7hstrwbjo6homc4uupzbs6j/bafkreifvatyjjsdgqdbb3inxcmhhyjhzvtnwk255pgu2tkvcbdilwefsde)
