Iran's president Rouhani issued a threat to world powers a year after Trump pulled out of the deal (Image: GETTY)
Colonel Richard Kemp, a former head of International Terrorism Intelligence in the Cabinet Office, said difficult decisions had to be made to avoid “a nuclear-armed Iran” with ambitions to attack not only the Middle East but Europe and the US. On Wednesday, exactly a year after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear accord, Tehran gave world powers a 60-day ultimatum - break US sanctions or we will resume high-level enrichment of uranium.
The European Union has rejected Iranian president Hassan Rouhani’s threat over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed in 2015.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Colonel Kemp said the deal is “certain to fail” and echoed Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s verdict that it would pave the way for Tehran to build a nuclear bomb.
He said former US president Barrack Obama had been naive to think Iran would turn away from its nuclear ambitions under the deal and led Western nations
He said Mr Obama “lacked the strength” to find another way of restraining Tehran and ultimately “decided a bad deal was better than no deal”, leading other world powers with him into the deal with trade benefits in mind.
Colonel Richard Kemp warned European leaders should be prepared to take military action against Iran (Image: GETTY)
Colonel Kemp said Mr Obama was not strong enough to
