A day ago secret recordings of Iran’s Javad Zarif were leaked. What was revealed were a variety of incriminating details. One of those was the extent to which Iran was reliant on Qasem Soleimani before Donald Trump ended his evil ways. Of note, Joe Biden opposed that attack because he needed to keep his streak of being wrong about every major foreign policy decision of the last 40 years going. This from redstate.com.
But there was another thing mentioned on the tapes that was deeply disturbing. As RedState reported, Zarif made the claim that John Kerry had leaked classified intelligence to him, letting Iran know about Israeli attacks in Syria. After the report, the Biden administration claimed the attacks were public knowledge and that’s what Kerry shared.
But now, Kerry is denying that the entire discussion ever happened in the first place.
I can tell you that this story and these allegations are unequivocally false. This never happened – either when I was Secretary of State or since. https://t.co/BTOdFE1khW
— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) April 26, 2021
There are two possible explanations here. Either John Kerry is lying or Zarif is lying because the tapes say what they say.
This isn’t some anonymous claim made up by a political enemy and because of that, Kerry doesn’t get to play both sides of the fence on this. Given that, let’s assume Zarif is lying and that Kerry never actually shared intelligence with him.
If that’s true, then Kerry has just backed himself into a corner.
He can’t simultaneously say not to believe Zarif, the supposed “moderate” in Iran, while at the same time stumping for a return of the Iran deal and lauding his previous work on that front.
And that extends to the Biden administration, as well, because they have chosen to present Kerry as some sort of climate czar–a masquerade more likely.
If they are going to not fire Kerry and instead buy his denials here, then they are now in the position of enforcing the assertion that Iran is led by liars who can’t be trusted.
And what don’t we do with liars who can’t be trusted? Right. We don’t sign nuclear agreements with them.
Here’s David Harsanyi levying some very good questions about all this. He also notes that John Hudson, the reporter running cover for Kerry, is the same hack who “confirmed” the Russian bounty story that turned out to be fake news.
1. The Post didn't even mention this interaction in their initial piece (not sure if they've mentioned it at all, yet) but yet this reporter goes online to regurgitate the admin's GOP-'pounces' talking points. https://t.co/cjnXJk7gHy
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) April 27, 2021
Should we believe John Kerry? Zarif may be from the enemy camp but he had no reason to lie here. And, of course, Kerry is from the enemy camp too. Further, we already know that Kerry was colluding with the Iranians behind President Trump’s back, advising them on how to get around U.S. policy.
What say you Def-Con News readers? John Kerry simply being himself, yes? Again a traitor to America.