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Leaked UK memo says Trump axed Iran deal to spite Obama
Associated Press ^ | July 14, 2019 | Jill Lawless

Posted on 07/14/2019 9:28:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A U.K. newspaper has published more leaked memos revealing a British ambassador’s blunt assessments of the Trump administration, including one in which the envoy to Washington claimed President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal to spite predecessor Barack Obama.

In the May 2018 cable published by the Mail on Sunday, U.K. Ambassador Kim Darroch called Trump’s decision to abandon the international accord “an act of diplomatic vandalism, seemingly for ideological and personality reasons” because the pact “was Obama’s deal.”

Darroch wrote the memo after then-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visited Washington in a failed attempt to persuade the United States not to abandon the 2015 nuclear agreement.

He alleged the White House had no strategy for what would come after its withdrawal and “no sort of plan for reaching out to partners and allies.”

The newspaper published new details from confidential diplomatic cables despite a police warning that making the documents public might be a crime.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: associatedpress; borisjohnson; brexit; brexitparty; christophersteele; darroch; deepstate; djibouti; eritrea; eurabia; eussr; fourthreich; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; jcpoa; jilllawless; kimdarroch; lebanon; nigelfarage; obama; obamalegacy; redtories; rop; steeledossier; sudan; tds; unitedkingdom; worldwar3; yemen
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To: Wuli

American europhile conservatives still believe British Conservative Party is a loyal ally, even though the good old Tory has become progressive-wannabe.


41 posted on 07/15/2019 12:26:27 AM PDT by granada
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To: granada

What’s a “europhile conservative”?

Pro-EU Red Tories were a big problem during Thatcher’s prime ministership; her warnings about the EU made them turn on her. Think of them as Britain’s RINOs.


42 posted on 07/15/2019 2:53:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

INSTEX ain’t working out the way the EU and Iran thought it would and the EU and Iran are getting cranky.


43 posted on 07/15/2019 2:57:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: Olog-hai

Fake News! He did it to protect the US. She’s a lyin’ SOS.


44 posted on 07/15/2019 4:15:24 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Olog-hai

Headline is wrong, it wasn’t a fact, merely someone’s stupid opinion.


45 posted on 07/15/2019 4:54:27 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

“Now that’s a face to stop me assuming gender.”

If Tea Leoni was an ugly guy.


46 posted on 07/15/2019 5:17:54 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
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To: kiryandil
It’s Canadian...

That actually explains a great deal!! LOL!

47 posted on 07/15/2019 5:29:22 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (FOX has flipped. I am breaking the FOX habit. I have OANN on my Bookmark Bar now. No more FOX.)
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To: Olog-hai

Darroch was probably part of the Deep State coup attempt.


48 posted on 07/15/2019 5:56:59 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Olog-hai
U.K. Ambassador Kim Darroch
He puts the ass in ambassador.

Putting billions in currency on planes and flying them to Tehran and other EU cities (hidden slush funds) in the middle of the night and not getting congress and the voters to sign off was treason.

49 posted on 07/15/2019 6:16:28 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Gene Eric

Great Britain is also complicit in the coup attempt against the President. We care what their ambassadors say because . . . . ?


50 posted on 07/15/2019 6:27:04 AM PDT by atc23
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“seemingly for ideological”

Well, Duh!

The deal had nothing good in it for the US and had everything good in it for Iran. What is the sense of having such a deal? WHy have a deal with an enemy of our nation? the Ideology is that you’re our enemy and you shouldn’t benefit from us, at all. End of story.


51 posted on 07/15/2019 7:31:17 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: Olog-hai

Iran never signed
Congress never ratified

There is NO Iran Deal

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3334249/State-Department-says-Iran-NEVER-SIGNED-nuclear-deal-s-not-legally-binding-tells-Congress-butt-Obama-s-political-commitments.html


52 posted on 07/15/2019 11:22:28 AM PDT by BiggBob
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To: BiggBob

53 posted on 07/15/2019 11:24:12 AM PDT by BiggBob
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To: Olog-hai

“Pro-EU Red Tories were a big problem during Thatcher’s prime ministership; ”

>
Don’t know how red they were if red Tories did exist in Thatcher era.
But now the red Tory has become a part of the mainstream of British Conservative Party. It makes the Tory government hold ideological hostility towards Trump.


54 posted on 07/15/2019 8:03:39 PM PDT by granada
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