The far-left leader of the UK Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has attacked U.S. President Donald Trump for withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.
Speaking at a party conference in Liverpool, England, on Wednesday, socialist Jeremy Corbyn criticised President Trump for withdrawing from schemes that the U.S. leader believes conflict with his America First agenda or that fail to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
“When President Trump takes the U.S. out of the Paris accords, tries to scrap the Iran nuclear deal, moves the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and pursues aggressive nationalism and trade wars, he is turning his back on international cooperation and even international law,” said the pro-Palestinian campaigner who had referred to terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah as “friends” and had appeared on Iranian state television channel Press TV multiple times.
President Trump pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in May, calling it at the time “defective” and a “decaying and rotten structure”, citing the Islamic theocratic regime’s influence in the Middle East and its support for terror groups like Hezbollah.
The next round of sanctions against Iran are set to go into effect in November; the European Union, however, announced it plans to build a “legal framework” to preserve business with Tehran and bypass those sanctions.
The bloc’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini revealed the plan on Monday, while standing alongside Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, leaving U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “disturbed and indeed deeply disappointed” by the announcement.
Corbyn then took aim at President Trump’s “America First posturing… and his decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accords”, saying: “We only have one planet, so we must re-engage with countries seeking to walk away from Paris.”
Amidst a series of far-leftist policies Corbyn plans to adopt is a pledge to double the number of onshore wind farms and increase offshore mills by sevenfold — power sources that have been criticised as being inefficient, expensive, and a blight on the landscape.
Mr Corbyn’s comments at conference follow progressive French President Emmanuel Macron’s criticism of Trump at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, where the former Socialist party politician called on world leaders to “stop signing trade agreements with those who don’t comply with the Paris agreement” and made his case for globalism, claiming that “nationalism always leads to defeat”.
At his UN address on Tuesday, President Trump struck a different tone, in defence of national patriotism, saying: “We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.”