Donald Trump dumped Iran deal to spite Barack Obama, leaked UK diplomatic cables suggest
- Latest UK diplomatic cables published in British newspaper suggest Boris Johnson tried in vain to get Donald Trump to stick with the nuclear deal
- Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said his government is ready to hold talks with the US if Washington lifts sanctions and restores the 2015 nuclear deal
“The administration is set upon an act of diplomatic vandalism, seemingly for ideological and personality reasons – it was Obama’s deal,” ambassador Kim Darroch wrote in a diplomatic cable in May 2018.
The cable was included in a second batch of leaked reports published by The Mail on Sunday newspaper, the first of which caused Darroch to resign earlier this week.
Seprately, on Sunday, Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said in a televised speech his government is ready to hold talks with the US if Washington lifts sanctions and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal.
“We have always believed in talks … if they lift sanctions, end the imposed economic pressure and return to the deal, we are ready to hold talks with America today, right now and anywhere,” Rowhani said.
