Our View: Government should not be spreading alarm amid Iran crisis

In times like these, the government of the country should have one objective, to make sure that there is calm and that citizens are made to feel safe. The president has an important role to play in this regard, his main job as head of state being to reassure citizens that the government is in control of the situation and prepared to deal with any eventuality. This is the way to create the conditions for people to carry on with their daily lives as normally as possible under these circumstances.