In a free republic with an impartial judicial system, this sort of behavior would get Kerry and Malley prosecuted, disgraced, forced to resign. As it is, they will retire comfortable and laden with honors.
“EXCLUSIVE: Biden team colluded with Iran to foil Trump diplomacy,” by Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor, Washington Times, February 21, 2021:
President Trump in 2019 sought to open a back channel of communication with top Iranian officials and saw the U.N. General Assembly meeting in September as a potential opportunity to defuse escalating tension with Tehran, but the effort failed.
Two months earlier, however, a different back channel was thriving in New York. Iran’s smooth, English-speaking foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, met with Robert Malley, who was President Obama’s Middle East adviser, in an apparent bid to undermine the Trump team and lay the groundwork for post-Trump relations.
The attempt at counterdiplomacy offers a window into the deep relationships Mr. Zarif forged with influential U.S. liberals over the past decade. These relationships blossomed into what high-level national security and intelligence sources say allowed the Iranian regime to bypass Mr. Trump and work directly with Obama administration veterans that Tehran hoped would soon return to power in Washington.
One of those was former Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who met with Mr. Zarif during the Trump years. So did Obama-era Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. They, along with Mr. Malley, were top U.S. negotiators of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). As part of the deal, Tehran promised to limit its nuclear enrichment activities in exchange for economic sanctions relief and access to tens of billions of dollars in frozen bank accounts.
Mr. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the pact in 2018. He cited the need for a much tougher agreement that also addressed Iran’s support for terrorist groups and its destabilizing behavior in the Middle East.
Mr. Kerry and Mr. Malley are now in the Biden administration, Mr. Kerry as a climate adviser and Mr. Malley poised to play a major role in U.S.-Iranian relations from his perch as special envoy for Iran policy at the State Department.
But Mr. Zarif’s power extends far beyond the negotiating table. Numerous sources have told The Washington Times that he wields tremendous influence over a tightly knit group inside the U.S. that has long advocated for Washington to take a more accommodating tack toward Iran.
The sources, including several from the U.S. intelligence community who spoke on the condition of anonymity, described a “web” of activity tied to prominent think tanks across the United States, as well as lobbying efforts that reached directly into the White House during the Obama years.
It’s an informal union of Iran apologists and pro-diplomacy advocates that helps amplify Mr. Zarif’s talking points, giving the Iranian Foreign Ministry influence over public opinion in the United States and considerable sway in left-leaning political and social circles.
One former U.S. official described Mr. Zarif as “the bat signal” for a network that encompasses left-leaning university professors, think tank analysts and other corners of civil society calling for a less-confrontational relationship with the regime in Tehran.
“He’s the signal for an echo chamber internationally that has been established over time,” the former official said….
Mr. Kerry has publicly acknowledged meeting with Mr. Zarif at least twice during the early years of the Trump administration.
In 2018, the former senator from Massachusetts told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he intended to find out “what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East for the better” and said there was nothing secret about his meetings with Mr. Zarif. He vehemently denied claims that he “coached” Mr. Zarif about how to deal with the Trump administration.
The Associated Press, meanwhile, reported that Mr. Zarif met with Mr. Moniz earlier in 2018 and with Iran deal negotiator Wendy Sherman on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference that same year. Ms. Sherman has been nominated to serve as deputy secretary of state in the Biden administration.
Most of the meetings with Mr. Zarif took place before Mr. Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018. That timing is important because it means the U.S. and Iran were still official diplomatic partners.
But Mr. Malley and Mr. Zarif met in 2019, after the JCPOA withdrawal, meaning the dynamic between Washington and Tehran had changed drastically. Sources said it’s likely that Mr. Malley urged Iranian officials to wait out the Trump presidency with the expectation that a Democratic administration in 2021 would restore Obama-era policy….
somehistory says
These ugly creeps…kerry and malley…need to be arrested, like yesterday, as in two years ago…because they are criminals in violation of the Logan Act. It was written for just such slime as these two traitors.
Arrest them, charge them, take them to trial and have some regular people…not dems or moslims…sit as jurors and weigh the mountain of evidence that they broke the Law they are supposed to uphold. Then send them both to gitmo because they have engaged in jihad.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
If what they did was not a violation of the Logan act, I’m not sure what would be…
somehistory says
J.L.
When a student of criminology or Law courses reads the texts, there are always examples given of ones who have broken the laws, often with photos of the perps.
This photo of kerry should be included in the section regarding The Logan Act, with a lengthy description of what he and malley. have done as traitors and criminals against the American public.
Someone should write a text for the new students in those courses. Some honest writer, should write a text and include all of the clinton people, these two creeps, brennan, clapper, “o,” omar, tlaib, ellison, etc. as examples of perps who have committed crimes and, so far, gotten away without proper punishment
Some sections would be very, very thick with examples and photos.
Rob Porter says
somehistory – As Robert said, “In a free republic with an impartial judicial system, this sort of behavior would get Kerry and Malley prosecuted, disgraced, forced to resign.” Hopefully they’d also end up in prison for a long time, but America didn’t have the guts to do that with Jane Fonda during the Vietnam War and is an even bigger mess today. And with America now so deeply divided, politically and ideologically, so deeply compromised and subverted by liberal/leftist traitors, through them so deeply penetrated by enemy agents and proxies, its national security and intelligence agencies – FBI, DHS, CIA – infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood and Chinese agents and proxies, these disgusting individuals will go on their merry way selling out the United States. My bet is that within a year we won’t recognize the once United States of America.
Canada is already in bed with despotic communist China, on more than 18 occasions its troops training with those of China, and China’s 2 add 3-star generals studying in Canadian military colleges. And this is is only part of it.
LB says
The swamp is simply too widespread and too powerful. If it decides it’s not going to abide by the Constitution, there’s no one who could stand up to it. Think about it, the US Constitution are just words on a piece of paper, and if the entire governing body (White House, Congress and Department of Justice) decides that those words don’t matter, there isn’t an entity in this world who could hold it accountable. And it wouldn’t be the first time either — think back prior to the election how certain swing states changed their voting laws just weeks before, effectively breaking constitutional law, and yet nothing happened. If they could get away clean with the steal this time, how do you expect any other time to be different?
Dark times are ahead of us all, and not just for the Americans. That is, unless those same Americans don’t do something about it. But they gotta do it fast because clock is ticking, and as we speak, Americans are slowly but surely becoming a minority in their own country. The window of opportunity for any genuine action is shrinking by the day.
James Lincoln says
LB,
In 2015, when US Presidential candidate Donald J Trump said he was going to DC to “drain the swamp”, I don’t think even *he* knew how deep, powerful, and widespread it was…
Infidel says
The next time the GOP comes to power, the Logan Act should be used to throw the book at Kerry! In fact, that’s exactly why the Logan Act was created: it was never meant for the likes of a Michael Flynn or a transition team coming into government
mortimer says
The Dems say, ‘It isn’t breaking the LOGAN ACT when WE do it. And it isn’t COLLUSION when WE do it.’
Walter Sieruk says
The Joe Biden guys John Kerry and Robert Malley are the sabotage agents for Biden because he want to destroy the common sense based foreign policy of former President Trump regarding sanctions on the aggressive and tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
Therefore it’s very obvious the President pretender Biden is a catastrophe and calamity for America and a disaster and tragedy for the American people.
Likewise Biden is a disaster and curse for Israel. By contrast, Bogus President Biden is a demonic blessing to that aggressive, hostile Islamic tyranny of Iran.
Walter Sieruk says
President Impostor Biden is very intent to use John Kerry and Robert Malley as his tools for sabotaging in good judgement foreign policy of former US President Trump.
The reason why this is so is because Biden owes much to that “mullah regime” of Iran. For Biden is controlled by the tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran. At least to some degree, this is because Biden is much indebted to Iran for aiding, as in helping him obtain the Office of the President of the United States.
So naturally; the ayatollahs, mullahs as well as the other regime officials would be very overjoyed with the Biden administration.
For that Biden administration will ,no doubt, will be most un-American, treacherous, subversive and even treasonous to the Constitutional Government of the United States of America,
To make matters worse, this coming awful administration will come into being because a stolen national election by massive voter fraud and rigged voting machines.
This treachery and blatant travesty of a national rigged election is an is a terrible affront and violation to and affront to the Law of the US Constitution the American spirit of a true and honest and real Presidential election system.
Let’s not be hopefully unrealistic and naive 2021 was the last genuine national American election this nation will ever have this coming Biden/Harris administration has the total essence of the Red/ Green alliance in it and backing it.
It’s no wonder than that the Muslim tyrants of are in power in that Islamic aggressive, hostile Islamic tyrannical regime are euphoric about Biden administration.
It’s also very likely that this despicable “mullah regime” of Iran had it sinister insidious Islamic hand playing apart in that November rigged national election. For in the video documentary entitled TRUMP CARD by Dinesh D’ Souza . His film exposed that their number one, top, goal for the year of 2020 was to scrap the Trump administration and replace it with a Biden administration. So the ayatollahs ,mullahs and other officials of that Islam Iranian regime schemed ,funded ,support and promoted the Biden President campaign in every was that it was able to, by hook or by crook, that “mullah tyranny” aided the Biden campaign.
Felix Katz says
The traitors should be arrested and interrogated and give public confessions before being punished in public……………………..???
No Muzzies Here says
A reasonable person would assume that Kerry asked Iran to help elect a Democrat in 2020 with the promise of preferential treatment if elected. The current situation begs one to conclude that way.
Harold C Goldback says
Would someone please tell me why John Kerry isn’t brought up on charges of Treason or Subversion?
Linda Goudsmit says
John Kerry and Robert Malley should be prosecuted under the Logan Act as enemies of the state, who knowingly engaged in efforts with a foreign country to sabotage the diplomatic efforts of a sitting president of the United States.
gravenimage says
Biden’s handlers John Kerry and Robert Malley colluded with Iran to foil Trump diplomacy
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Just appalling–but we already knew that Kerry is a traitor and hates America.