(Express) – Britain and other world powers must be prepared to consider taking military action against Iran, an ex-commander has warned after the Islamic Republic threatened to step up uranium enrichment. Colonel Richard Kemp, a former head of International Terrorism Intelligence in the Cabinet Office, said difficult decisions had to be made to avoid “a nuclear-armed Iran” with ambitions to attack not only the Middle East but Europe and the US. On Wednesday,
exactly a year after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear accord, Tehran gave world powers a 60-day ultimatum – break US sanctions or we will resume high-level enrichment of uranium. The European Union has rejected Iranian president Hassan Rouhani’s threat over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed in 2015. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Colonel Kemp said the deal is “certain to fail” and echoed Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s verdict that it would pave the way for Tehran to build a nuclear bomb. READ MORE
