Britain’s Johnson wants to maintain Iran nuclear deal

Brussels (AFP) – British foreign minister Boris Johnson said on Monday the Iran nuclear accord that US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to tear up must be maintained.

As he went into an EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, Johnson said it had been “a difficult and controversial deal, but one which has stopped the Iranians from acquiring nuclear technology they might otherwise have acquired, and it is a deal which we think has great merit and we want to keep going.”