Sec of State John Kerry reveals daughter married Iranian-American with extensive ties to Iran

[Markinsa]

Sec of State John Kerry reveals daughter married Iranian-American with extensive ties to Iran

Posted on March 30, 2013 by creeping

via Secretary of State John Kerry demonstrates why Huma Abedin’s background mattered | Walid Shoebat.

 

Here we have an example that demonstrates this reality further and it comes via Kenneth Timmerman, who has picked up on the fact that the new Secretary of State – John Kerry – has a son-in-law with family still living in Iran. This reality could conceivably affect how Kerry deals with the Iranians.

 

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Via the Daily Caller:

In 

a greeting to the Iranian people

 on the occasion of the traditional New Year (Nowruz) holiday last week, Secretary of State John Kerry exposed a secret that journalists and academics have been agonizing over for the past six weeks: the fact that his daughter has married an Iranian-American who has extensive family ties to Iran.

 

“I am proud of the Iranian-Americans in my own family, and grateful for how they have enriched my life,” Kerry said in the official statement. Kerry also said he was “strongly committed to resolving” the differences between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, “to the mutual benefit of both of our people.”

 

Politicians like to keep their families off-limits to the press, a decorum enforced vigorously when it comes to politicians who are in favor with the national media but ruthlessly discarded for others. But in Kerry’s case, there could be larger ramifications.

 

Since its inception, 

the FBI has vetted U.S. government officials involved in national security issues, 

and it generally won’t grant clearances to individuals who are married to nationals of an enemy nation or have family members living in that country

, for fear of divided loyalties or,

more simply, blackmail

.

 

 

There it is. Certainly, even leftists can comprehend this concept without inserting race into their thought processes (oh, wait). Imagine a scenario in which a representative of Iran’s mullahs approaches the State Department with a list of demands that, if not met, could have serious consequences for Kerry’s in-laws living in Iran.

 

In the current political construct, such demands could conceivably involve the U.S. withholding money, weapons, or aid earmarked for a country like Egypt as tensions in the Middle East escalate. While that may not sound like a bad idea to those of us who understand the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood, shouldn’t our Secretary of State’s sole interest be in lockstep with the interests of the United States?

 

[divemaster5734]

Just when you think nothing would be a surprise anymore.

 

Wouldn't this be the definition of "conflict of interest"?

 

Not surprising coming from Kerry.

 

He started his political career by turning on the brothers he served with.

 

Now he has a chance to sell out his entire country.

 

Hmmm... the name Judas mean anything to ya?

[Markinsa]

Kerry exposes Iranian family tie — and subjects family to blackmail

Posted By Kenneth Timmerman On 1:26 PM 03/25/2013 In | 

 

In a greeting to the Iranian people on the occasion of the traditional New Year (Nowruz) holiday last week, Secretary of State John Kerry exposed a secret that journalists and academics have been agonizing over for the past six weeks: the fact that his daughter has married an Iranian-American who has extensive family ties to Iran.

 

“I am proud of the Iranian-Americans in my own family, and grateful for how they have enriched my life,” Kerry said in the official statement. Kerry also said he was “strongly committed to resolving” the differences between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, “to the mutual benefit of both of our people.”

 

Politicians like to keep their families off-limits to the press, a decorum enforced vigorously when it comes to politicians who are in favor with the national media but ruthlessly discarded for others. But in Kerry’s case, there could be larger ramifications.

 

Since its inception, the FBI has vetted U.S. government officials involved in national security issues, and it generally won’t grant clearances to individuals who are married to nationals of an enemy nation or have family members living in that country, for fear of divided loyalties or, more simply, blackmail.

 

Behrouz (Brian) Nahed and Vanessa Kerry Nahed are both resident physicians at Mass General in Boston. An Iranian government website first published pictures of the married couple in February, just as Kerry was up for confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Dr. Nahed’s parents live in Los Angeles, but he has relatives still in Iran. The Iranian website reported that shortly after their marriage, the young couple visited those relatives in Iran.

 

Was the Iranian publication itself a subtle form of blackmail, aimed at letting Kerry know that the regime is fully aware of his son-in-law’s extended family in Iran? The Islamic Republic systematically puts pressure on family members of prominent Iranian-Americans (for example, individuals who work at the Persian service of Voice of America), to make sure that they do not engage in hostile statements or activities against the Tehran regime.

 

Certainly, Secretary Kerry has long favored a U.S. rapprochement with the Islamic Republic. He has repeatedly appeared with groups such as the American Iranian Council (AIC), and has taken money from Iranian-Americans for his political campaigns, including at least one illegal donation from an Iranian woman who did not have a green card. So he didn’t need to have an Iranian-American family member to believe that the United States should forge direct relations with the Islamic Republic or ease U.S. pressure on the regime.

 

Kerry may have figured that by revealing the family tie himself he could diffuse the situation, and make it more difficult for the regime to put pressure on his son-in-law’s family. Of course, that’s assuming Kerry in fact plans to do anything that angers the regime.

 

But what if the regime simply decides to round up Nahed’s family members and torture them? Or sends its goons to visit them at home? Or exerts some form of more subtle pressure on them that gets no publicity, and then makes it known they want the United States to release Iranians jailed in the United States on terrorism charges or for attempting to procure weapons technology or military spare parts?

 

In any other administration, such a complicated situation would have been considered an unacceptable security risk for a cabinet-level officer. My guess: Now that the cat is out of the bag, a fawning left-wing media will attempt to gin up public sympathy for Secretary Kerry, and lionize him for bravely reaching out to Tehran.

 

While that might send shivers down the leg of a Chris Matthews, it won’t resolve the very real security risk. The mullahs in Tehran and their goon squads won’t hesitate to exploit this messy situation for their own benefit.

 

One can only sympathize in advance with Behrouz Nahed’s family in Iran, and wonder at the audacity, naiveté and hubris of an American politician who apparently thinks his position (and positions) put him above it all.

 

Kenneth R. Timmerman is the founder and president of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran.

 

Article printed from The Daily Caller: http://dailycaller.com

[waterman13]

Oh what a tangled web we weave.....

(Sir Walter Scott)

Wm13

[aliciadogz]

Now we know why obummie put Kerry in that position he has ties so he won't let obummie down or his new family ties down this is really scary folks WOW!!

[flatdawg]

 

Wouldn't this be the definition of "conflict of interest"?

 

 

Hmmm... the name Judas mean anything to ya?

No more or less than the dual-citizens you vote into office.

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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...remember that defecting journalist who said kerry & hobummer were working FOR Iran's interests, not the Free World's....

[Nelg]

This doesn't have anything to do with the post, only FlatDawg. (For fun only.)

 

Hey, FlatDawg.  I have a close friend of mine at church who is a "blue dawg" Democrat.  He came in with a "joke" at our weekly breakfast.  "This is the Democrat's special holiday!   Except we celebrate it all the time! We lie to the public; they believe it, and then we say, 'April Fool!!'"  "Course, no one really laughs anymore."     

 

We couldn't believe he said it.  Ha.  He is the one who wants me to do his funeral, but to make sure he is not buried next to a Republican!  And, certainly not in the same cemetery as someone from the "Tea Party."  Ha.  

Edited April 1, 2015 by Nelg

[Shabibilicious]

Oh no!!!  So that's how they're going to take us out.........tainted ketchup.    

 

GO RV, then BV

[Bunk]

 The only thing kerry is good at,is bilking rich widows,out of their late husbands money.

[dog53]

Kerry is a slack jawed inbred SOB

 

But with that being said 

I guess his daughter can marry whomever she wants.

Its her life.

Isn't that what  everyone on this forum wants " FREEDOM "  

If her husband gets caught doing anything underhanded with his family's GOVT

Then we can cross that bridge. 

In the meantime

My congratulations to the bride. 

[Shabibilicious]

Kerry is a slack jawed inbred SOB

 

But with that being said 

I guess his daughter can marry whomever she wants.

Its her life.

Isn't that what  everyone on this forum wants " FREEDOM "  

If her husband gets caught doing anything underhanded with his family's GOVT

Then we can cross that bridge. 

In the meantime

My congratulations to the bride. 

 

Once again.....that's what makes you "that guy", Dog.    

 

GO RV, then BV

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Listen, there're SO many Iranian-loving, Jew-hating operatives in Our White House now,

 

what difference would one more make.... they've already formed a coalition in Our Republic SO huge,

 

they are going to be difficult to eradicate if / when we ever recoup our Country.

 

 

Bet 'daddy-in-law' feels pretty safe n' smug now that he's linked to the dark side by marriage...

 

Clearly HE knows something WE don't and is aligning himself for survival......

 

 

Goes hand-in-hand with all that IRAN a$$-kissing & leg-humpin' he's been performing over at the nuke-fest.

[divemaster5734]

No more or less than the dual-citizens you vote into office.

 

huh?

 

You are obviously confused.

[10 YEARS LATER]

Absolutely nothing to see here . . . . move along, move along [ he said with dripping derision & sarcasm ]

 

Pelosi's remark about the most transparent administration ever, has taken on a life of its own in ways these massively corrupt poiliticians never bargained for.

 

The more they try to conceal, the more they inadvertantly reveal. The Emporer and His Cronies have no clothes !  

 

They really are a hapless bunch. Oh they will continue to advance the agenda and increase their bank accounts: however one day I really would like to see that day when the veneer is stripped away and they're standing in court next to their cluster of lawyers putting in the plea of "Not Guilty"

 

Then, let the games begin - a guy can dream can't he ?