The shadow of Barack Obama hung over Donald Trump at the G7 summit on Tuesday as he bristled at comparisons between his deal to end the US war with Iran and his predecessor’s nuclear pact with Tehran.
“That was a road to a nuclear weapon,” Trump said of Obama’s 2015 agreement, which he fiercely criticised for years and scrapped during his first term in office. “Mine is a wall against a nuclear weapon,” he added.
Trump’s agreement to end the conflict with Iran may have paved the way for a restoration of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, easing oil prices and rallying equity markets, but it has left him on the defensive.
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