{"id":1972404,"date":"2023-07-13T18:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kerry-defends-secret-meetings-with-iran-during-trump-admin\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T18:51:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:51:26","slug":"watch-kerry-defends-secret-meetings-with-iran-during-trump-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kerry-defends-secret-meetings-with-iran-during-trump-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Kerry Justifies Covert Meetings With Iran Under Trump Administration"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fwatch-kerry-defends-secret-meetings-with-iran-during-trump-admin%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=1972404&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>\n<h2>John Kerry&#8217;s Secret Negotiations: A Closer Look<\/h2>\n<p>John Kerry, President Joe Biden\u2019s climate envoy, recently found himself defending his controversial decision to engage in backdoor negotiations with Iranian officials during the Trump administration. These clandestine meetings were aimed at preserving the 2015 nuclear deal, and Kerry, who was not in government at the time, held at least three secret meetings with former Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif.<\/p>\n<p>During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Kerry faced tough questioning from Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.) who accused him of undermining the current administration&#8217;s diplomacy. At the time of Kerry&#8217;s meetings with Zarif, then-president Donald Trump was actively working to dismantle the nuclear accord and impose strict sanctions on Tehran.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Shadow diplomacy,&#8221; Kerry argued, &#8220;is permissible depending on its purpose. In fact, shadow diplomacy has saved us from war in the past.&#8221; Kerry referred to the back-channel discussions that played a crucial role in diffusing the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Kerry&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kerry-defends-secret-meetings-with-iran-during-trump-admin\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Kerry Justifies Covert Meetings With Iran Under Trump Administration\">actions drew widespread scrutiny<\/a> after Zarif claimed that the former secretary of state had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaker-of-secret-docs-identified-in-media-as-young-national-guardsman\/\" title=\"Leaker of Secret Docs Identified in Media as Young National Guardsman\">shared sensitive information<\/a> about Israeli strikes in Syria. Kerry vehemently denied these allegations, stating that such a conversation &#8220;never took place.&#8221; He also pointed out that details about Israel&#8217;s attacks on Iranian positions were already &#8220;in public circulation&#8221; at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Waltz dismissed Kerry&#8217;s rationale, asserting that his shadow diplomacy had brought the United States dangerously close to Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed for details on how he communicated with Zarif, Kerry chose not to elaborate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-10-takeaways-from-fbi-director-christopher-wrays-house-judiciary-testimony\/\" title=\"Key points from FBI Director Christopher Wray\u2019s House Judiciary Testimony\">leaving unanswered questions<\/a> about the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/isis-inspired-nyc-bomber-sentenced-to-life-in-prison\/\" title=\"ISIS-Inspired NYC Bomber Sentenced to Life In Prison\">encrypted messaging apps<\/a> like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry, President Biden&#8217;s climate envoy, justified his actions of engaging in covert talks with Iranian officials under the Trump administration to uphold the 2015 nuclear agreement. Despite not being in government then, Kerry had at least three undisclosed meetings with former Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1972405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972404","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\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}