LONDON: Britain’s ambassador to Washington believed United States President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal because it was associated with his predecessor Barack Obama, according to a published leaked documents.

“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.

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