Trump abandoned deal with Iran to counter Obama, suggests former Ambassador

Declaration is part of a series of confidential reports leaked and published by the paper ' Mail on Sunday ' that has already caused the resignation of Kim Darroch

For the British Ambassador in United States Kim Darroch, Donald Trump took out your country from Iranian nuclear agreement because it was associated with your predecessor Barack Obama, according to documents published by the diplomatic Press.

"The Government put in an act of vandalism, apparently for ideological reasons and personality. Was the Obama agreement ", said Darroch in a diplomatic telegram in may 2018.

The document is part of a second set of confidential reports leaked and published by the newspaper "Mail on Sunday". The first led to the resignation of Darroch last Wednesday.

In may 2018, the then British Chancellor, Boris Johnson, visited Washington to try to convince the American President not to withdraw the United States from the agreement with Iran, signed in 2015. In a telegram sent after, Darroch gives an account of the divisions in the Trump team involving this decision, and criticizes the absence of long-term strategies of the White House.

The former also reported that the American Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, "distanced himself subtly, speaking of" the President's decision, "during his talks with Johnson. According to Darroch, Pompeo left see who had tried to "sell" a revised text for Trump, published the paper.

The British Government ordered to be investigated the source of the leaks, while police opened an investigation into a possible breach of official secrets laws.

The British police has been accused on Saturday, 13, of threatening the freedom of the press, have released warnings against the media who publish classified documents.