British Leaks Describe Trump’s ‘Act of Diplomatic Vandalism’ on Iran Deal

Nytimes.com ^ | 7/13/19 | Benjamin Mueller

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LONDON — It was just hours after Boris Johnson, then Britain’s foreign secretary, returned to London from a whirlwind trip last year to try to persuade the White House to abide by the Iran nuclear accord.

Kim Darroch, then the British ambassador to the United States, fired off a withering assessment of President Trump’s wish to quit the deal. Mr. Trump, he wrote in leaked diplomatic cables that were published on Saturday, was “set upon an act of diplomatic vandalism, seemingly for ideological and personality reasons — it was Obama’s deal.”

The vice president, the national security adviser and the secretary of state had all failed to “articulate why the president was determined to withdraw, beyond his campaign promises,” Mr. Darroch wrote. And the American government had no plan for what would follow.

“Even when you pressed,” Mr. Darroch wrote to Mr. Johnson, “none had anything much to say about the day after, or a Plan B, beyond reimposition of U.S. sanctions.”

With Iran and the United States now locked in an escalating standoff, the leaked cables offered a window into Britain’s frantic effort to save the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018 — and the Trump administration’s indifference to its entreaties.

[butlerweave]

May is a Globalist the main reason she did nothing with BREXIT , an an Anti-Trumper

[tennmountainman]

This is only how the elite think, just as our own elite.

[libertylover]

seemingly for ideological and personality reasons — it was Obama’s deal.”

No, it was because it was the worst deal in the history of mankind.