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Senior Iranian cleric says Kerry told Iran’s negotiator he “wished U.S. had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader”

Apr 29, 2015 11:47 am By Robert Spencer

john-kerry-and-mohammad-jawad-zarif-set-for-paris-nuclear-talks-source“Seeing unprecedented weakness in the U.S. president, Iranian leaders do not fear the United States anymore.” That says it all. “Report: Kerry Told Iran He Wishes ‘U.S. Had a Leader like Iran’s Supreme Leader,’” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, April 29, 2015:

Secretary of State John Kerry told his Iranian counterpart that he wished the United States had a leader more like Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, according to comments made by a senior Iranian cleric and repeated in the country’s state-run media.

Ayatollah Alam al-Hoda claimed during Friday prayer services in Iran that in negotiations over Tehran’s contested nuclear program, Kerry told the country’s foreign minister that he “wished the U.S. had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader,” according to a Persian-language report on the remarks published by the Asriran news site.

“In the negotiations Kerry told [Iranian Foreign Minister Javad] Zarif that he [Kerry] wished U.S. had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader,” according to Alam al-Hoda, who is a senior member of the Iran’s powerful Assembly of Experts.

A senior administration official told the Washington Free Beacon that such a contention is patently absurd.

The remarks are the latest in a string of comments made by Iranian leaders purporting to reveal private details of the talks.

Iranian newspapers have carried multiple reports in recent months suggesting that Iranian Foreign Minister and chief negotiator Javad Zarif was ordered to stop screaming at Kerry behind closed doors.

In his Friday remarks, al-Hoda went on to say that Obama is set on striking a deal with Iran by June.

“Both Republicans and Democrats want these negotiations with Iran, but they fight each other for partisan interests,” he was quoted as saying. “Obama wants the negotiation to succeed so his party can win the next election and Republicans want to stop him.”

Alam al-Hoda also celebrated Iran’s expansion in the region and controversial activities in war-torn countries such as Syria and Yemen.

“Today, the resistance crescent has gone beyond Syria and Lebanon and reached to Yemen,” he said. “Today the resistance front is in control of Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb.”

The “U.S. and Israel have not been so weak anytime before,” he continues. “All these events are being managed by the hidden Imam,” a revered religious figure in Shia Islam.

Saeed Ghasseminejad, an Iranian dissident and fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), said U.S. overtures to Iran at the negotiating table have failed to win it any respect from the Islamic Republic’s leaders.

“President Obama thinks that by making more concessions he can gain the trust and respect of Iranian leaders,” Ghasseminejad said. “However, Iranian leaders neither trust him nor respect him.

“Seeing unprecedented weakness in the U.S. president, Iranian leaders do not fear the United States anymore. Partnership, trust, and alliance between the radical Islamist regime of Tehran and United States cannot and should not exist.”…

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  1. Abraham says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 12:13 pm

    Nice mild rebuke by the Secretary of State. Will Kerry loose his job because of this? Hmm…

    • mortimer says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 3:17 pm

      The mullahocracy will keep going until they are stopped. They aren’t as strong as they appear. The Persians hate them.
      If the opportunity arose, there would be a big uprising by the Persians in which at least one million mullahs and their supporters would be assassinated.

      The mullahs run the country as a huge fascist conspiracy against the interest of the Persians.

    • Godwin says

      Apr 30, 2015 at 6:04 am

      So Kerry means Obama is useless.

    • Gordon Miller says

      Apr 30, 2015 at 9:35 am

      I wish Kerry really made that statement and got fired for it. Now THAT would be a statement!

  2. somehistory says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    “Today, the resistance crescent has gone beyond Syria and Lebanon and reached to Yemen,” he said. “Today the resistance front is in control of Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb.”

    The “U.S. and Israel have not been so weak anytime before,” he continues. “All these events are being managed by the hidden Imam,” a revered religious figure in Shia Islam.
    ***********************************************************************************************************************
    The reason they are *negotiating* in a nutshell. It has nothing to do with *peace* or peaceful use of Uranium. It is all about islam and their goals.

  3. mariam rove says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 12:29 pm

    It is probably true. That said both leaders have one thing in common, Jew hatred and throwing Israel under the bus. M

    • Godwin says

      Apr 30, 2015 at 5:53 am

      Before that happens , Israel will nuke them first n flatten a great part of the ME.

  4. RonaldB says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 12:30 pm

    I flat-out don’t believe Ayatollah Alam al-Hoda. I think it’s a complete lie and fabrication with not a spec of truth.

    Even Kerry is not so dumb as to trust the Iranians with regime-shaking confidences.

    • mariam rove says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 2:10 pm

      More importantly this f… idiot thinks the Iranian people are a bunch of dummies. m

  5. Bradamante says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 12:41 pm

    Kerry has his flaws — and I don’t need to enumerate them for readers of this site, for sure — but it’d be way out of character for him to say something like this. Either they’re making it up whole cloth or something got lost in translation. Nevertheless, the fact that Iran sees us as weak and malleable is abundantly clear and important.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 3:22 pm

      TAQIYYA is raised to an art form by the Shi’ites.

      They are making up stories for people within there country who will believe anything they want to believe.

      Chances are, NO PERSIANS will take seriously what the mullahs say. They’ve lied to them so MANY TIMES!

  6. Daniel Triplett says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 12:45 pm

    The irony is, America already does have a leader like Iran’s supreme leader.

  7. Sam says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 12:47 pm

    It does not matter. Obama and Kerry have superior knowledge of Islam and superb negotiating skills especially in the international arena. Kerry will visit soon Iran to bring a singer to sing “you got a friend” so Iranians will not confiscate American ships, let alone nuking us. You will see.

    T

  8. Don McKellar says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    The only problem with this kind of story is that Iran is still fighting a jihad against the United States, and because war is deceit, according to the mass murdering criminal muhammad, and they follow his example, there is a 50/50 chance that anything they say will be a lie. They are moslems, lying is what they do if it means, in their minds, advancing Islam in the world.

  9. traci94 says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 1:15 pm

    I wish both Kerry and Obama would just go on over to Iran and live. Then they could have exactly the kind of country and leadership they both want.

    • Karen says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 10:24 pm

      Let’s say it wouldn’t shock me if he had said it. It’s moronic and kissy-face enough to be a direct quote.

    • Karen says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 10:30 pm

      Hilary can go too. Then she can watch her favorite channel 24/7….Al Jazeera, the world’s greatest pretend “news” organization.

  10. Westman says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 1:48 pm

    “All these events are being managed by the hidden Imam” – Alam al-Hoda

    That is, Muhammad al-Mahdi the 12th Imam who is supposedly in hiding. This is the major point of contention between Shia and Sunni, sufficient for Sunnis to kill Shias as apostates. Some think he is hiding in a well and pilgrimage to drop messages in the well.

    Both groups think their Mahdi will lead the end times, with Isa(Jesus), only a prophet, praying behind the Mahdi in a secondary position. They think Jesus’ crucifixion was faked; Allah putting Jesus’ face on some other person who was crucified. Jesus dies after 40 years of administration.

    Supposedly the differences in belief about the Mahdi lead to political and military jihad AFTER the appearance of the hidden Mahdi for Shia and political jihad NOW for the Sunnis.

    From observation that seems questionable.

  11. David says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 1:51 pm

    Iranian newspapers have carried multiple reports in recent months suggesting that Iranian Foreign Minister and chief negotiator Javad Zarif was ordered to stop screaming at Kerry behind closed doors.

    What else can you do in the face of such blinding stupidity?

  12. duh_swami says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    He did say that the deal would be made if ‘Allah was willing’…
    If he did say that about the leader, he was probably buttering them up…

  13. Champ says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 2:27 pm

    Iranian newspapers have carried multiple reports in recent months suggesting that Iranian Foreign Minister and chief negotiator Javad Zarif was ordered to stop screaming at Kerry behind closed doors.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Of all the things I’ve read pertaining to this story–this I can believe! And what is it with muslims and their need to “scream” at people? …my, we see this all the time.

    • Westman says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 2:43 pm

      “…fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog,..” Winston Churchill.

      Not much has changed.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 29, 2015 at 4:30 pm

      Yes, Champ. And that the Iranian “negotiator” feels emboldened enough to scream at the American secretary of state—and that Kerry was apparently passively taking it—shows just how this insanity is stoking Muslim supremacy.

      2016 can’t come soon enough for me…

      • Champ says

        Apr 29, 2015 at 5:29 pm

        2016 can’t come soon enough for me…

        Me, too, Graven!

        And I am no fan of kerry or team obama, but I would rather stick needles in my eye than be put in the position to *negotiate* with a muslim supremacist. Imagine the mind-numbing experience THAT would be! Yeah I really don’t see how you can *negotiate* with islamic supremacists–since you’re perceived as always wrong, and they’re convinced they’re always right.

        • Joseph says

          Apr 29, 2015 at 5:32 pm

          Today is yesterday’s tomorrow. Look for your “explanation” I hope it comes close to how I feel.

        • Champ says

          Apr 29, 2015 at 6:31 pm

          Hi Joseph! Yes, I read your explanation on that other thread, and it’s absolutely wonderful! You have a real gift for sharing from your heart, so it helped me appreciate your perspective so much more. Take care!

  14. gravenimage says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    Senior Iranian cleric says Kerry told Iran’s negotiator he “wished U.S. had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader”
    ……………………………

    Who knows if this is blatant false Iranian propaganda or if Kerry really has gone this far around the bend in toadying to the “Islamic Republic”.

    The only thing that *is* clear from this is that Iran feels *supremely* confident that they are completely steamrolling the US, and that no one in official America is going to do anything but appease them.

    More:

    “Both Republicans and Democrats want these negotiations with Iran, but they fight each other for partisan interests,” he was quoted as saying. “Obama wants the negotiation to succeed so his party can win the next election and Republicans want to stop him.”
    ……………………………

    Actually, it is pretty questionable whether the Republicans—despite their inconsistency on actively opposing Jihad—would have been so foolish as to open “negotiations” with Iran on their own. I think they at least would have had the sense to let the decades-old cessation of “diplomatic” relations with Iran stand. But there is no doubt that their recent letter to the Mullahs was the height of bone-headed stupidity, and just gave Iran another tool to manipulate us.

    More:

    Alam al-Hoda also celebrated Iran’s expansion in the region and controversial activities in war-torn countries such as Syria and Yemen.

    “Today, the resistance crescent has gone beyond Syria and Lebanon and reached to Yemen,” he said. “Today the resistance front is in control of Strait of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb.”
    ……………………………

    “Resistance” is the term all Muslims use for outright aggression…

    More:

    The “U.S. and Israel have not been so weak anytime before,” he continues. “All these events are being managed by the hidden Imam,” a revered religious figure in Shia Islam.
    ……………………………

    Weakness on our part is, of course, *exactly* how Iranians interpret this appeasing “outreach”. And we see, again, that far from being rational actors, that the Mullahs consider this all part of their insane “Twelver” Shia end-times vision.

    More:

    Saeed Ghasseminejad, an Iranian dissident and fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), said U.S. overtures to Iran at the negotiating table have failed to win it any respect from the Islamic Republic’s leaders.

    “President Obama thinks that by making more concessions he can gain the trust and respect of Iranian leaders,” Ghasseminejad said. “However, Iranian leaders neither trust him nor respect him.
    ……………………………

    Well, duh. Any sane person—which apparently at this point does not include the American president or secretary of state—could have told them that. That is assuming, of course, that this is just cluelessness on the part of Obama, and not intentional undermining of America.

    The Mullahs have no more respect for Obama and Kerry than Hitler did for Neville Chamberlain.

  15. Edward says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    “Senior Iranian cleric says Kerry told Iran’s negotiator he “wished U.S. had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader”

    At it again and has been going since viet..NUM days. He lie about something he didn’t achieve over there for what ever reason and now he is trying to butter up to the Persians. He is delusional…yep he can convert to Islam to be a subject of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei when he moves to Iran. He would have to, because Americans would not go for a theocracy here. However, his wishes would be sort lived of course, when the Islam radicals over there learn that Kerry was a Roman Catholic before. For the Muslims don’t go for religious tainted people. We have seen what has happened to them!

    BTW, the same treatment could happen to us here in America if some complacent being Americans continue to think that we are not in any danger now or in the future. They have to quit procrastination-ism or die!

  16. Jerry says

    Apr 29, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    There is nothing wrong with Kerry and his current
    Somali POTUS that a good back wall and a
    competent firing squad cold not cure.

  17. Truth Seeker says

    Apr 30, 2015 at 12:41 am

    Good Suggestion. Not only US but all Christian Countries should keep one Religious Head as the Supreme, so that there will be some Counter Steps to Islamization

  18. Benedict says

    Apr 30, 2015 at 1:43 am

    Democrats need to lose the next election. This to put the USA back as a major power, rather than being a wuss.

  19. pumbar says

    Apr 30, 2015 at 2:52 am

    I see that re-reading of “diplomacy for dummies” has really honed Kerry’s skills.

  20. Jimbo Bimbo says

    Apr 30, 2015 at 4:34 am

    If this report is true, then Mr. Kerry has shown that he is totally unsuited for the job, because a negotiating delegate should never, repeat NEVER, let down his principal, even ‘during the break’/ ‘off topic’, or ‘off camera’, as this immediately – repeat: IMMEDIATELY – results in a very visible rift between the delegate and his principle, which in turn immediately allows for an opportunity to sow division. It is exactly this that we are witnessing at present. Which in turn is why the report has significant credibility.

    Given the inevitable conclusion that Kerry is incompetent in combination with the more than obvious fact that Obama is as well, things look rather problematic, I dare say. ‘You do the math’ is what they apparently say in these situations.

    Mr. Spencer, could you please pay some media attention to the latest, extremely shocking statements by Ms. Mogherini concerning Iran? She is actually putting all of the EU’s eggs into the Iranian basket! She’s even more of a mind boggling retard than Kerry and Obama put together !!!!!! Sorry for the name calling.

  21. duh_swami says

    Apr 30, 2015 at 5:59 am

    John said the evil words, ‘Allah willing’…Does that mean he believes Allah is God? I hear that a lot from people who don’t know any better. The fact is, Allah is not God, and anyone who believes it is, cannot be trusted…

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