Former Brit diplomat did not understand how unpopular Obama's bad deal with Iran was

BBC:
Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK's former ambassador in the US.

Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of "diplomatic vandalism", according to the Mail on Sunday.

The paper says the memo was written after the then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appealed to the US in 2018 to stick with the deal.

The latest leak came despite the Met Police warning against publication.

The first memos criticising President Trump's administration, which emerged a week ago, prompted a furious reaction from the US president and resulted in Sir Kim resigning from his role.

The Mail on Sunday reports that Sir Kim wrote to Mr Johnson informing him Republican President Trump appeared to be abandoning the nuclear deal for "personality reasons" - because the pact had been agreed by his Democrat predecessor, Barack Obama.

Under the 2015 deal backed by the US and five other nations, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.

However, President Trump said he did not think that the deal went far enough in curtailing Iran's nuclear ambitions and reinstated US sanctions after withdrawing from it in May 2018.
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The Iran deal was one of the least intelligent in the history of diplomacy.  It gave Iran money to postpone for a few years when it would build a bomb that its leaders hope to use for genocidal attacks on people they hate.  Iran then used the money to pay its proxies for attacks on others.  Everyone including Obama who pushed this deal should be embarrassed by it.  Trump honestly thought it was a stupid deal and he was right.

The British ambassador misjudged Trump's intentions and it probably reflects his on animus for the President instead to thoughtful observations.

Obama knew his deal was unpopular.  That is why he used an "echo chamber" to try to sell.  It is also why he did not submit to the Senate to ratify as a treaty which would have bound the US to stay in the deal.  How did Darroch miss all these obvious signs of the unpopularity of the deal?  He appears to have had his fingers on the pulse of American liberals instead of the voters.

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