He told BBC Radio 5 live: "If the United States authorities acquire a piece of intelligence that may save lives in the United Kingdom, we would expect that intelligence to be shared whether it has been obtained under United States law, which may not be compatible with our own, or not".
"Information has been obtained from Iraqi intelligence sources that the countries to be targeted soon, before it occurred, are Europe in general, specifically France, as well as America and Iran," Jaafari said.
"Therefore, it will be for the investigation to consider whether (if) this incident had been classified as high risk from the outset, valuable intelligence could have been obtained sooner".
The report examines 20 case studies, arguing that, each time, the same intelligence could have been obtained without torture.The CIA insists that it is impossible to know what milder methods might have achieved, and may release its own response to the report.
Such intelligence might have been obtained through foreign security agencies on the understanding that the source and details would not be disclosed to an open court.
We now find out that a justification for going to war in Iraq was based on bad intelligence that may have been obtained through torture.
The former head of MI6 has said torturing suspected terrorists produces "useful information", as The Independent on Sunday reveals that "real-time" intelligence understood to have been obtained by torture in Saudi Arabia helped to thwart a terrorist bombing on British soil.
The report also is expected to rebut claims that the interrogations were key to locating Osama bin Laden or thwarting other terrorist plots, concluding that nearly all the intelligence gleaned through harsh techniques could have been obtained through more traditional intelligence-gathering practices.
Critics also said the Senate report went too far in claiming that intelligence gained under torture could have been obtained through other sources or technical means.
Obama has acknowledged that torture had proved counter-productive by damaging the country's moral authority, although he stopped short of agreeing with the Senate report that no useful intelligence was gathered that could not have been obtained elsewhere.
