Posted on 02/19/2020 7:19:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
TEHRAN -- Iran’s foreign minister said Wednesday that he believes his recent meeting with a U.S. senator had spooked the Trump administration because it was an opportunity to talk directly to “the American nation.”
Mohammad Javad Zarif met last week with Sen. Chris Murphy on the sidelines of an international security conference in Germany. The Connecticut Democrat defended the meeting on Tuesday after his actions were questioned in conservative media, and as President Donald Trump suggested they may have violated U.S. law. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped anyone who meets with Zarif would be reflecting the U.S. position with Iran.
“Trump and Pompeo are afraid of a senator hearing facts from the Iranian foreign minister,” Zarif said, speaking to reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting. He said this wasn’t his first face-to-face chat with an American lawmaker in the last 20 years. It was not immediately clear which senators he’d met with.
Murphy said meeting Zarif was important because it is “dangerous not to talk to one’s enemies,” adding: “I have no delusions about Iran - they are our adversary.”
On hearing of Saturday’s meeting, Trump said it sounded as though Murphy had violated an obscure, little-used federal law known as the Logan Act, which bars private citizens from conducting official diplomacy.
Pompeo said the U.S. has long designated Iran a state sponsor of terrorism, and pointed out Iran’s recent accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger jet over Tehran. Pompeo has criticized other Americans for meeting with Zarif, including his immediate predecessor, John Kerry.
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I don’t trust these bozo’s. Who knows what they asked and got in return?
the Logan act was used to go after Gen. Flynn.
What was Murphy’s message in that meeting????? “I’m for sale?”
Will the House and Senate hold hearings?
“had violated an obscure, little-used federal law“
No doubt that’s how AP would characterize it if a republican had done it to Obongo./s
Iran’s foreign minister said...
Broke my BS meter.
See post 3.
Well I’ve yet seen Lindsay go after it.
JAIL THE BASS TURDS!
Arrest the traitor.
Murphy isn’t a private citizen, Kerry is.
I guess they can do whatever they want, because no indictments or convictions will be obtained against Demonrats in DC.
The entire jury pool is on their side.
Who knows what they asked and got in return?
the usual: money and promise of power
Uh, this is some serious violations of law here, Mr. Barr.
*Ahem*
Democrats do not comply with the law.
That was used to prosecute General Michael Flynn, so it's not that obscure or little-used.
Promised another pallet of cash for big kickbacks.
“the usual: money and promise of power”
And the cute goat
No it just gave us the name of a traitor
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