Posted on 12/02/2017 11:59:48 AM PST by Eddie01
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - US Former Secretary of State John Kerry said Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt pushed the United States to bomb Iran before the 2015 nuclear deal was struck. Kerry defended the deal during the Ignatius Forum in Washington, saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was genuinely agitating towards action, before he struck the accord with Tehran.
Kerry said when he was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he met with Saudi King Abdullah, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Netanyahu, who all lobbied for military action.
"Each of them said to me, you have to bomb Iran, it's the only thing they are going to understand," he said.
But Kerry said that was a trap since the Arab countries would have publicly criticized the US if it bombed Iran.
It was not clear when the conversations took place. Kerry chaired the Senate panel from 2009 to early 2013. Mubarak was deposed in February 2011.
Kerry, one of the main architects of the deal, said he doesn't know whether Iran will resume pursuing a nuclear weapon in 10 to 15 years after restrictions in the deal sunset. But he said it was the best deal the US could get and made the Middle East safer as well as heading off a nuclear arms race in the region.
"Without exaggeration, the likelihood is very high that we would have been in a conflict," without deal, he said.
He criticized US President Donald Trump for telling Congress to try to fix the agreement, and said he had polluted the water of legitimate diplomacy by vocally criticizing the deal while campaigning.
"That was a blatant over-simplistic political appeal to the American Jewish community ... because most of those people hadn't read the agreement," he said.
He added that UN restrictions on missile development were snuck in by US ambassador Samantha Power and were only included because nobody noticed.
All this would be moot but for the fact that Jimmah Carter and American DemoRats including Kerry supported and enabled an illegal insurrection and coup by Communists in Iran.
Treason, thy name is Kerry.
Well we had our window of opportunity. How soon will Iran become a nuclear power fait accompli like their partner, North Korea? I know Trump is willing to stop them but the rest of the world is not.
It’s seared in his memory.
Kerry as always is a legend in his own mind.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AhlulBayt_News_Agency_(ABNA)
“This article has multiple issues...This article needs additional citations for verification...AhlulBayt News Agency abbreviated ABNA is an Iranian online news aggregator based in Qom...In the year 2005, to tackle with the problem of mass media covering Shiite communities in an unfair way, it was the secretary General of the Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly who recognized that in order to fight this one-sidedness we should have an exclusive website that can fully dedicate its energy to make sure all Shiite communities remain aware of the developments around them...Subsequently, and by the inauguration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ABNA became an official news agency...”
Your post makes sense if there are no other sources corroborating.
Unfortunately, a quick google shows several sources corroborating.
So, unfortunately I have to inform you, your post makes no sense.
Have a look at the funny Iranian/Russian thread from early this morning.
Israel Struck Iranian Military Base Near Syria’s Damascus, Reports Say
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3609834/posts
What an idiot! Resume in 10 or 15 years? They have never stopped pursuing nukes. And Kerry and obozo also gave them $100 billion in cash! This self-entitled wind-surfing treasonous gigolo will go down in history as worse and more stupid and naive than Chamberlain.
“Israel, Egypt, Saudis pushed US to bomb Iran”
...But our ‘leader from Behind’ elected to send them pallets full of unmarked 10’s, 20’s, 50’s and 100’s instead.
One MOAB per day would have been much cheaper, and we’d have had the desired results before the end of a week.
One problem, Mubarak was not president of Egypt at the time—it was Al-Sisi.
I love that song.
And by the way, I tend to take material from the Ruskie at Zero Hedge with a grain of salt.
got it. we’re good.
Don’t believe anything that comes from Kerry. He is a lying piece of human debris.
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