{"id":1496142,"date":"2022-05-29T07:47:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496142"},"modified":"2022-05-29T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T14:12:23","slug":"revealed-obama-officials-tried-to-undermine-trump-in-secret-meetings-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/revealed-obama-officials-tried-to-undermine-trump-in-secret-meetings-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Obama Officials Tried to Undermine Trump in Secret Meetings With Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frevealed-obama-officials-tried-to-undermine-trump-in-secret-meetings-with-iran%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496142&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">In 2018, officials from the Obama administration met secretly with Iranian officials as part of a plan to undermine sitting President Trump efforts to isolate the regime with economic pressure to get them to dispense with their nuclear programs.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/c391070.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com\/pdf\/Memo%20-%20Pages%20from%20FL-2021-00270%20May%202022%20Production%5B34%5D.pdf\">newly released memo<\/a> from the State Department shows that this &#8220;off-the-record&#8221; meeting was between a delegation of former US ambassadors and Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif at his residence in New York City.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">The memo was released due a lawsuit that was brought by The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) specifically to compel the State Department to come clean about their efforts during Trump&#8217;s administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/disclosed-how-obama-administration-officials-conducted-shadow-diplomacy-with-iran-to-undermine-trump\/\">reports<\/a> the <em>The Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">John Kerry, who served as Secretary of State after Hillary Clinton vacated the post, was &#8220;reported to be working behind-the scenes with Iranian officials to salvage the 2015 nuclear accord,&#8221; the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> reports. This &#8220;shadow diplomacy&#8221; concerned &#8220;nuclear weapons, potential prisoner swaps, [the] Afghanistan withdrawal, and negotiations with the Taliban,&#8221; according to the ACLJ.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">The memo shows that Obama officials were working directly in opposition to the Trump administration during Trump&#8217;s term in office, conducting meetings and pretending at an authority that they did not have.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;This memo reflects even more than we already knew about former State Department officials continuing on as if they were still in office,&#8221; said Trump&#8217;s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who works as ACLJ senior counsel for global affairs.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;Trying, at every turn, to work with the foreign minister for a terrorist regime, Iran, to undermine the very sanctions put in place by America. It&#8217;s worse than not knowing when to get off stage. Actively seeking to protect the terrible deal they struck, these former officials\u2014two years after Obama left office\u2014were signaling that Iran should stand firm against America,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">Kerry was actually trying to resurrect a deal that Trump had already abandoned. In the meeting with Kerry and Zarif, Zarif complained about Trump&#8217;s policies, saying that they had increased public opinion in Iran against the US. Zarif also affirmed Iran&#8217;s commitment to their nuclear enrichment program.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">&#8220;The U.S. says no peace deal and the U.S. will reimpose sanctions, but the condition is zero missiles, zero nuclear enrichment. This what [John] Bolton wants,&#8221; Zarif said, during that meeting, per the memo. &#8220;I know Bolton and negotiated with him years ago. His views are so radical, that we could not reach an agreement. Absolute impossibility to reach an agreement with John Bolton unless you ask him to sit down and read at dictation speed what he wants and then you sign it. He is incapable of compromise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, officials from the Obama administration met secretly with Iranian officials as part of a plan to undermine sitting President Trump efforts to isolate the regime with economic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1496188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}