HOW did Barack Obama celebrate his deal – the correct word is sell-out – with Iran over that country’s nuclear programme? He celebrated by making a speech, of course, in which he said what a jolly good deal it is and added that he would bypass the US Congress if representatives there dared vote against it.

President Obama is the boss of America and so I suppose he should be allowed to celebrate as he likes.

The boss of Iran is Ayatollah Khamenei. How did he celebrate the deal? He tweeted a drawing of Obama holding a pistol to his head, about to commit suicide.

Tasteless as this is, it was the more appropriate celebration of the two because it perfectly illustrates the swindle that has been perpetrated upon the US – and by extension the West – by the Iranian authorities who will now go full steam ahead with their nuclear enrichment programme until they are able to produce the atomic bomb.

Recent photographs of their Parchin military complex, near Tehran, where for years Iran has worked on developing nuclear arms, show increased activity since the nuclear deal was reached in Vienna. Pictures taken on July 26 and analysed by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) – a respected Washington think tank and not to be confused with the acronym for Islamic State – show a bulldozer at the base, as well as oil spills, which indicate heavy machinery at work.

“What the activity is precisely remains unknown,” said Serena Kelleher-Vergantini, an ISIS analyst. “But the concern is that Iran is potentially trying to get rid of any evidence of past experiments.”

What a surprise! But the next sentence I shall write in this article is unbelievable – but true. The US and the other five world powers involved in the negotiations do not have access to the document containing the details of the nuclear deal. It was left to a US congressman to articulate the blinking obvious: that “side deals” have been done with Iran.

So the US Congress is suddenly waking up to the fact that the Iranian government has fooled the International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspectors. The director of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, visited US Congress last month to try to reassure senators but said his agency could not show them the details of the documents.

“My legal obligation is to protect safeguards and confidentiality,” he said, which, being interpreted, means: “We promised the Iranians we wouldn’t let the cat out of the bag.” In plain language, the West has signed up to deal while not knowing what’s in it and effectually the safety of the West has been entrusted to the dodgy bureaucrats who run the IAEA – and who, of course, will do exactly what Mr Obama tells them to do; neither more nor less.

So Mr Obama will have his phoney peace legacy and Iran will have its bomb. The deal has been signed. Economic sanctions on Iran will now be lifted providing hundreds of billions of dollars for the Iranians to spend on their promotion of international terrorism.

And how did Britain celebrate the nuclear sell-out? By re-opening our embassy in Tehran which has been closed since it was attacked and ransacked by an Iranian mob in 2011. I’m pleased to say our embassy has been repaired and restored. To which expense the Iranians have not contributed a penny. As part of the sell-out, we have coughed up for the lot.