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The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British politician and Leader of the Conservative Party since July 2019. A former Tory cabinet minister Liam Fox says Boris Johnson should follow Donald Trump’s lead and declare the Iran nuclear deal is dead, following increasing tensions between Iran and the United States. The former international trade secretary will say that the deal, known as the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) was doomed from the beginning and urge the international community to meet Iran’s fanaticism with more consistency and resolve. It is important that Trump pulled the U.S out of the agreement in 2018.

The U.S President branded an embarrassment, in spite of a failed bid by then-foreign secretary Boris Johnson to keep him in the agreement. Fox will say: “The JCPOA is dead and European attempts to salvage it are futile. Britain should follow the U.S lead and operate a policy that would reduce Iranian oil exports to zero in an attempt to force a change of behavior from the Khamenei regime. The agreement has been shown to give the scant and only short term, reduction in Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons. The original aim of halting Iran’s nuclear weapon program now offers merely a delay with the problem left as a toxic legacy to future governments”.

Moreover, his comments triggered anger in some quarters as Liberal Democrat MP Chuka Umunna alleged the Tories of supinely following the U.S president. Umunna is the party’s foreign affairs spokesman, he said, “The Iran nuclear deal is an important achievement that helps keep our world safe. This Conservative government should be doing all it can to help ensure the deal is salvaged and upheld, not supinely following President Trump and his reckless actions. We should be working with our allies to tackle the biggest issues of our time, instead of President Trump’s puppet”. The United Kingdom government remains committed to the Iran nuclear deal and issued a joint statement to that effect with France, Germany, and the EU high representative during last week.