Iranian refugee slams John Kerry's 'anti-American' backdoor meetings with Iran during Trump admin

Fox News ^ | 2-24-21 | Nikolas Lanum

[SJackson]

Former State Department envoy says conduct 'unbelievable'

Iranian refugee and former Trump official Ellie Cohanim slammed John Kerry on Wednesday, calling the former secretary of state's backdoor meetings with Iran during Trump’s presidency "anti-American" and an attempt to undermine the administration’s foreign policy stances.

During an appearance on "Fox and Friends," the former State Department special envoy called the Biden administration’s talks with Iran to reenter the nuclear deal "diplomatic malpractice" and urged them to stop making unilateral concessions and instead increase demands on the Iranian regime.

"What exactly was it that John Kerry was telling them - just ignore America until we’re back in power?" Cohanim said. "It’s kind of unbelievable."

Cohanim said that the maximum pressure campaign under the Trump administration to hold the Iranians accountable was one of the strongest on the regime in American history and has brought the country to its weakest point in 43 years.

The former Trump official pointed to Iran’s economic downturn, mishandling of the coronavirus, and civil unrest as evidence the country is on the "verge of collapse."

Biden administration officials, including John Kerry and Robert Malley, had meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif during the Trump administration that were orchestrated to undermine President Biden's predecessor, a recent report from The Washington Times claimed.

Zarif held meetings with Obama administration veterans who could return to power "to devise a political strategy to undermine the Trump administration" and usher in softer diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran.

Kerry, who is now President Biden's top climate envoy, has been open about the fact that he met with Zarif at least twice during the Trump administration, prompting Trump to say he should be prosecuted under the Logan Act.

[Liz]

Obama's Secy of State John Kerry at Daughter's Marriage to Iranian;
Best Man Mahdi Zarif, is son of Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif,
Zarif was Iran’s chief negotiator in official nuclear talks with Obama.

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$150 Billion tax dollars in Cash for Iran in Nuclear Deal
IWB ^ | IWB / FR Posted on 1/7/2020 by davikkm
RE: Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry.

In 2009, Kerry’s younger daughter from his first marriage, Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry, married Iranian-American physician, Dr. Brian (Behrooz) Vala Nahid. The Best Man at their wedding, Mahdi Zarif, was the son of Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, who acted as Iran’s chief negotiator in official nuclear talks with the US. In other words, Javad Zarif was John Kerry’s counterpart in official Iran nuclear deal negotiations, the same negotiations that eventually ended up with Iran being given 150 Billion in cash with literally no SIGNED agreement and, thus, no strings attached. Ah, but it gets better… (Excerpt) Read more at investmentwatchblog.com ...

[allendale]

Few people hate America more or are in a position to do it grave harm than John Kerry.

[HighSierra5]

Deflated football face should be arrested and convicted of treason. Only when Jesus H Christ returns will these Devil’s disciples be struck with a rod of iron.

[MtnClimber]

The left instinctively sides with evil.

[Liz]

Where did Obama get billions of tax dollars he gave to Iran?

Obama's $1.3B giveaway to Iran was paid in cash Jan 22 and Feb 5 from a little-known fund administered by the US Treasury.
The so-called Judgment Fund is made up of tax dollars Congress has permanently approved in the event it's needed....
(cue laugh machine here)

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SOURCE: fiscaltreasury.gov. -----The Judgment Fund was established to pay court judgments and Justice Department compromise settlements of actual or imminent lawsuits against the government. It is administered by the Judgment Fund Section, which is a part of the United States Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service. The Judgment Fund Internet Claims System (JFICS) is the application used to process all Judgment Fund claims.

The Judgment Fund is a permanent, indefinite appropriation available to pay judicially and administratively ordered monetary awards against the United States. The Judgment Fund is also available to pay amounts owed under compromise agreements negotiated by the U.S. Department of Justice in settlement of claims arising under actual or imminent litigation, if a judgment on the merits would be payable from the Judgment Fund. The statutory authority for the Judgment Fund is 31 U.S.C. 1304.

If funds for paying an award are otherwise provided for in the appropriations of the defendant agency, the Judgment Fund may not pay an award. A federal agency may request that payment of an award be made on its behalf from the Judgment Fund only in those instances where funds are not legally available to pay the award from the agency's own appropriations.

Amounts paid vary significantly from year-to-year. Federal agencies are not required to reimburse the Judgment Fund except when cases are filed under the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) or the No FEAR Act (Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act).

Contact judgment.fund@fiscal.treasury.gov or 202-874-6664.

[BenLurkin]

[OA5599]

Shouldn’t a few higher ups in the FBI interview Kerry without lawyers with the goal of trying to catch him in a perjury trap in order to prosecute him or get him fired, with the justification being the possible violation of the Logan Act?

Isn’t that now established protocol? This is clearly justification to launch an investigation to see if anyone in the Biden administration has colluded with the Iranians to alter the outcome of the 2020 election.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Bottom line: Domestic enemies of the USA have commandeered our government and of COURSE their only aim is to destroy the USA. How much more evidence do people require? What positive thing has occupier Joe Biden done this past month?

Now he is defending and protecting “sex offenders” who are in the country ILLEGALLY which you damn well know includes child rapists. Could it get any more sick than this? He is now DELIBERATELY putting your kids in danger.

https://humanevents.com/2021/02/24/biden-cancels-trumps-operation-talon-program-that-targeted-sex-offenders-living-in-u-s-illegally/

[I want the USA back]

kerry is a traitor, like his former boss.

[piasa]

Over 40 years the US state dept has played this failed good cop bad cop routine and we have nothing to show for it except corrupted sold out politicians and 40 years of cleaning up the blood, bodyparts, collapsed buildings, and other debris left by Iranian bombs.

[DPMD]

It’s been his MO since negotiating in secret with his North Vietnamese friends in Paris while still on active duty, and without orders from a legit source. One might also suspect it’s also the source of whatever personal fortune he may claim.

[DPMD]

Make that “$150 billion, minus the usual kerry transaction fee.”

[Liz]

.......plus Obama’s cut.....in (cough) “foundation contributions”.....

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Same guy—Zarif:

“Iran’s Foreign Minister Threatens to Expose Western Diplomats Who Took Bribes to Create the Iran Nuclear Deal”

https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/05/13/irans-foreign-minister-threatens-expose-western-diplomats-took-bribes-create-iran-nuclear-deal-n89540

All these Iran cheerleaders took bribes. Iran had them under their thumbs, and still do.

Wish Trump had ordered the DOJ to investigate it. *sigh*