Committing what looks like an act of treason, 77-year-old former Secretary of State John Kerry gave Iran’s 61-year-old Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif intel about Israel’s military actions in Syria. According to an interview Zarif gave to London-based Farsi-language Iran International Zarif said Kerry gave him 200 covert Israeli attacks on strategic targets in Syria. If true that Kerry gave Zarif strategic intel about America’s No. 1 Mideast ally, he should be charged with treason or, at the very least, forced out of his current position as 78-year-old President Joe Biden’s climate czar. What Kerry knows about climate science is anyone’s guess but, if he gave Zarif classified intel about Israel Kerry should have his government security clearance revoked. Zarif said in the interview that he had little clout when it came to Iran’s foreign policy.
Kerry and Zarif spent a lot of time together between 2013 and 2015 going back-and-forth negotiating the July 15, 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA] AKA “the Iranian Nuke Deal,” signed by the P5+1, U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China and Germany, to limit Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. Western allies were concerned that without the agreement Iran had a short break-out time to an A-bomb, something purely speculative but giving Western governments reason to get a deal with Iran. Zarif vented his frustration with Iran International about how he has no influence in foreign policy compared to 81-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Republican Guard Corps. Zarif expressed frustration that he had no clout as Foreign Minister, deferring all matters of foreign policy to Khamenei, his Assembly of experts and the Republican Guard Corps
Zarif’s comments made in March to London-based Iran International sent shockwaves around the globe, hearing the Foreign Minister admit to the world he had no clout on foreign policy, deferring everything to Khamenei and the elite Republican Guard Corps. Zarif admitted that Kerry kept him informed during the four years of the Trump presidency, making his disclosures all the more egregious. Kerry, the Democratic Party and press said Kerry did nothing wrong bypassing former President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Nothing could be more hypocritical that hearing that Kerry betrayed his government while out of office, when you consider the Obama administration was obsessed with Lt. Gov. Gen. Michael Flynn allegedly conducting foreign policy with former Russian Amb. Sergei Kislyak, when they had innocent get-to-know each other meetings.
Zarif admitted in the interview that the Ayatollah kept him in the dark and welcomed Kerry’s input on intel related to the Israeli government, especially in the Syrian battlefield. Biden, while former President’s Vice President, accused former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn of violating the arcane 1799 Logan Act during the last days of the Obama administration. Obama, Biden and his national security team, including former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan, met in the Oval Office Jan. 5, 2017 to set Flynn up after the Jan 20, 2017 inauguration, sending FBI agents unannounced to the White House Jan. 24 to set Flynn up in a perjury trap. Yet it was Kerry, not Flynn, who violated the Logan Act but went much further betraying the state of Israel. With the media backing the Biden White House, it’s doubtful Kerry will lose his job.
Zarif committed the cardinal sin in brutal dictatorship, confessing publicly that he has no power, influence or clout in Iran’s foreign policy. When Kerry pushed him too hard in 2015 in the final days of negotiations on the JCPOA, he through a fit and stormed out of the negotiating session. Kerry must have known that Zarif had to follow the Ayatollah’s orders or disappear from the negotiations. Speaking to Iran International, Zarif spilled the beans on the true nature of Iran’s regime that should come as no surprise to anyone. Khamenei call himself the Supreme Leader for a reason because no one has influence on him. Former President Donald Trump admonished Kerry for running a shadow government, conducting U.S. foreign policy without a portfolio while Trump was president. Kerry rejects any suggestion that he did anything improper telling Zarif about Israeli military intel
As long a Biden and the Democrat-friendly press back Kerry, he won’t be going anywhere, because there’s just not enough right wing news outlets to make a big deal about Zarif’s inadvertent admission. “I can tell you this story and these allegations are unequivocally false. This never happened—either when I was Secretary of State or since,” Kerry said on Twitter. Why Zarif would lie to London-based Iran International about Kerry’s intel on Israel is anyone’s guess. One thing’s for sure, the issue won’t be taken seriously in any Democrat-friendly news outlet. It’s OK for the press to persecute former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn but not OK to expose former Secretary of State John Kerry for meddling in U.S. foreign policy after he left office. Trump said Kerry conducted a shadow government. Looks like that same shadow government upended his second term.
