Iranian refugee and former Trump official Ellie Cohanim slammed John Kerry on Wednesday, calling the former foreign minister with Iran ‘anti-American’ during Trump’s presidency and an attempt to undermine the government’s foreign policy positions.
During an appearance on Fox and Friends, the former State Department special envoy called the Biden administration’s talks with Iran to re-introduce the nuclear deal ‘diplomatic malpractice’ and called on them to stop making unilateral concessions. make and rather increase the demands on the Iranian regime.
“What exactly did John Kerry tell them – just ignore America until we are in power again?” Cohanim said. “It’s pretty amazing.”
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Cohanim said the maximum pressure campaign under the Trump administration to hold the Iranians accountable was one of the strongest in U.S. history, bringing the country to its worst point in 43 years.
The former Trump official pointed to the economic downturn in Iran, the mismanagement of the coronavirus and civil unrest as proof that the country is on the “brink of collapse”.
Biden administration officials, including John Kerry and Robert Malley, had meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif during the Trump administration organized to undermine President Biden’s predecessor, a recent report by The Washington Times claims.
Zarif held meetings with Obama administration veterans who could come to power again “to devise a political strategy to undermine the Trump administration” and usher in a softer US-Iran diplomacy.
Kerry, who is now President Biden’s leading climate envoy, was open about the fact that he met with Zarif at least twice during the Trump administration, which asked Trump to be prosecuted under the Logan Act.
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Meanwhile, Republicans are criticizing Biden’s decision to give up with a Trump era to reintroduce United Nations sanctions against Iran, as the government appears to be taking a lighter approach to the regime.
Fox News’ Evie Fordham contributed to this report.