Leaked Documents: Former Obama Administration Officials Tried Helping Tehran During Trump's Era

yota691 · May 27, 2022

Leaked Documents: Former Obama Administration Officials Tried Helping Tehran During Trump's Era

2022.05.27 - 11:43

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The Washington Free Beacon reported, citing an internal State Department document, that a delegation of former Obama administration officials, including John Kerry, secretly met with Mohammad Javad Zarif at his New York residence in 2018 to undermine the Trump administration's efforts to pressure Iran. .

According to the internal document, which was declassified after a complaint filed by the US Centers for Justice against the State Department, former Obama administration officials discussed with Zarif about nuclear weapons, prisoner exchanges, the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, and talks with the Taliban.

Trump's Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, told Free Beacon that when he was Secretary of State, he was unaware of continuing meetings between former Obama administration officials and Tehran regime officials.

Pompeo added that the relationship between former Obama administration officials and Iran, two years after their responsibilities ended, sends a message to Tehran that it must stand firm against the United States.

Currently, Iran's demand to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations has become the biggest obstacle in negotiations to revive the nuclear deal.

However, at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian described the halt in talks on reviving the nuclear deal due to disagreements over removing the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations as a play on the issue.

Amir Abdollahian said, "In order to revive the nuclear deal, economic sanctions and maximum pressure must be effectively lifted. It is not right to reduce these core issues to another issue."

Meanwhile, "Axios" quoted three well-informed Israeli officials as saying that the Israeli National Security Adviser, Elal Holata, will travel to Washington next week to meet with his American counterpart, Jake Sullivan, to discuss the Vienna talks and Biden's upcoming trip to Israel.

According to the "Axios" report, the consideration of a possible alternative plan in the event of the failure of the nuclear agreement and the preparation of a resolution condemning Iran in the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency will be one of the main topics of the talks between the United States and Israel.