A British politician, Emily Thornberry (member of the UK Parliament) has criticized the U.S President Donald Trump. She said that Trump is pulling out of the Iran deal. It was an “Act of diplomatic sabotage”. She added that indeed the whole world should stand united today in condemning Donald Trump for his reckless, senseless, and immoral act of diplomatic sabotage that he has committed. Every independent inspection has confirmed, even the U.S Defense Secretary James Mattis admitted last month that the nuclear deal is working and Iran is complying with it in full.
Thornberry said that there are other important matters that must be addressed with Iran, its regional activities, its ballistic missile program, and its record on human rights. But the platform for that dialogue, the foundation on which future arrangements could be reached was the nuclear deal. Instead, by seeking to scupper the nuclear deal, Donald Trump has destroyed the platform for the future progress and risked triggering a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, handing power to the hard-line theocrats in Tehran and pushing Iran back into isolation.
She added that Donald Trump is taking all those risks without a single care, without the slightest justification, and without the simplest rational thought as to what will come next. He is also sending a message to North Korea that any agreement they reach with the U.S will be worthless. If we didn’t know it before, what yesterday announcement has confirmed is that as long as Donald Trump remains president, we must get used to a world without American leadership. A world where efforts to secure peace and progress on the greatest challenges facing the planet must be made not just without American cooperation, but often in the face of this administration’s active opposition.
Emily Thornberry pointed out that this is the challenge we now face in relation to Iran, as it has been on climate change, the refugee crisis, and the Israel-Palestine peace progress. But starting with the consensus in the House today, I hope that we can all play our part in ensuring Britain rises to that challenge.
