This man is an ignorant idiot.
Good to see him as PM of Britain. haha.
David Cameron accused by Labour of Iran nuclear ‘gaffe’
Labour has accused David Cameron of committing a gaffe by mistakenly claiming Iran has a nuclear weapon.
Asked why he was backing Turkey to join the EU, he said it could help solve the world’s problems, “like the Middle East peace process, like the fact that Iran has got a nuclear weapon”.
A No 10 source said the PM “misspoke”, later adding he had been talking about Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
But Labour said he was becoming a “foreign policy klutz”.
Shadow Europe Minister Chris Bryant said: "This is less of a hiccup, more of a dangerous habit.
“Considering Iran’s nuclear ambitions constitute one of the most important foreign policy challenges facing us all, it is not just downright embarrassing that the prime minister has made this basic mistake, it’s dangerous.”
‘Junior partner’
He said Mr Cameron had been forced to “explain away another foreign policy gaffe” - a reference to the diplomatic rows that erupted over his recent comments about Pakistan.
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Iran has been the focus of concern among the international community over its uranium enrichment programme, with the US military warning in April it could produce enough material for a nuclear bomb in one year.
One of Mr Cameron’s aides said the prime minister “misspoke” when he said “Iran has a nuclear weapon”.
But she later told the BBC: “If you watch back the prime minister’s words, it is clear he is talking about Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon.”
The prime minister made the comment at one of his “PM Direct” public meetings at Hove, East Sussex.
Immediately beforehand, he had been berated by a member of the public about an earlier gaffe, when he described Britain as the US’s “junior partner” against the Nazis in 1940.
Retired telephonist Kathy Finn, 75, accused him of “denigrating” his own country, asking him: “Who do you consider was the senior partner in the Battle of Britain when we were fighting alone in the first two and a half years of the war?”