Some might call it shadow diplomacy, others might use a different term. Former Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to save their Iran deal, according to a report in the Boston Globe.
According to the report, Kerry traveled to New York two weeks ago and met with Zarif at the UN. It was the second time in two months the two had met to discuss salvaging the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear weapons deal that they and former President Barack Obama had put together, and which President Trump is deciding right now to either nix or fix.
Kerry has also been quietly talking with other world leaders, including German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, European Union official Federica Mogherini and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposed to the world that not only did Iran have a very advanced secret nuclear weapons program at the time of the signing, but in violation of Obama’s nuclear agreement, they never revealed the extent of that program to inspectors and secretly maintained all their weapons research, which the Mossad found and brought back to Israel.
Obama’s nuclear deal also freed up $150 billion to Iran, which Iran promptly directed towards sponsoring international terrorism and destabilizing the Middle East region.
Iran also began testing their ballistic missile program. Iran has been working on figuring out how to fit a nuclear payload onto their ballistic missiles.
Alan Dershowitz claims that Kerry is violating the Logan Act, according to a report in the Washington Examiner. The Logan Act prohibits private citizens from acting on behalf of the U.S. in negotiations with foreign governments without authorization, and has never been enforced in its 200 years.