Posted on 02/17/2020 10:32:07 AM PST by bitt
The Democratic senator who mocked President Trump after Trump ordered the killing of Iranian general and terror leader Qassem Soleimani, saying Trump had ‘made us a literal laughingstock” around the world, held a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference last week, according to a source briefed by the French delegation to the conference.
The Federalist reports that Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who had mocked Trump in early January, joined other Democratic senators for that secret meeting. What makes Murphy’s action particularly hypocritical is that in the past, he has bitterly slammed the idea that senators might interfere with a current administration’s foreign policy.
In 2015, 47 senators signed an open letter to Iran’s leaders that was never even sent to Iran in which they warned, “We will consider any agreement regarding your nuclear-weapons program that is not approved by the Congress as nothing more than an executive agreement between President Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei … The next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen, and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time.”
Murphy ranted to the National Journal, “I can’t even imagine the uproar if Democratic senators [had been] writing to Saddam Hussein in the lead up to the Iraq War,” adding that Republicans “have made it crystal clear that this has nothing to do with the merits of the deal. This has everything to do with undermining the president.”
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Source: Democrat Senator Held Secret Meeting In Munich With Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif
And Murphy wasn't the only member of the CODEL to attend...
Mollie
@MZHemingway
Chris Murphy and other Democratic Senators held a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif last week, a high-level source reports. FWIW, his office is not responding to repeated requests for comment.
FWIW....
Heshmat Alavi
@HeshmatAlavi
THREAD
1)
Sen.
@ChrisMurphyCt
& other Democratic senators had a secret meeting with Iranian FM
@JZarif
during the Munich Security Conference last week.
Me:
Not surprised. Murphy is a regular at sessions held by #Iran’s DC-based lobby
@NIACouncil
.
I’ll just throw this in, from four days ago on Twitter....
Bessma Momani
@b_momani
Not a good look to see PM Trudeau with smiling FM Zarif of Iran after Canadians killed at the hands of Iranian incompetence and malice on Ukrainian plane- not to mention the innocent Iranian protestors‘ killed.
Isn’t this treason?
He wasn’t alone. Other Democrat Senators were with him.
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