"A third early member of Kerry's foreign policy team was Richard Morningstar, a diplomat from the Clinton State Department. From 1995 to 1998 Morningstar had coordinated aid to the former Soviet Union, and in this capacity he had suppressed reports of US aid being diverted to fund the Russian military. Later Morningstar--a former Senior Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporations (OPIC)----had advised Clinton on Caspian energy policy, a subject related to OPIC development of a major oil pipeline then being built from Turkey through Georgia to Azerbaijan, the Baku--Tbilisi--Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline.10 " -- Fedora
One of John Kerry's benefactors was Hassan Nemazee, an Iranian born campaign donor shared with none other than Obama. Nemazee was convicted of defrauding some US banks and was fined and sentenced; Nemazee was for normalizing relations with Iran.
To get a better idea of what Obama and Kerry may have had in common besides Nemazee and morningstar maybe we should look at a quote of John Kerry from Fedora's link:
“I first want to say something about those sanctions on Iran. Only the United States put the sanctions on alone, and that's exactly what I'm talking about. In order for the sanctions to be effective, we should have been working with the British, French and Germans and other countries. And that's the difference between the president and me. . .With respect to Iran, the British, French, and Germans were the ones who initiated an effort without the United States, regrettably, to begin to try to move to curb the nuclear possibilities in Iran. I believe we could have done better. I think the United States should have offered the opportunity to provide the nuclear fuel, test them, see whether or not they were actually looking for it for peaceful purposes."34---- John Kerry
Thread bump and thank you for the ping, Piasa.