President Donald Trump has accused former Secretary of State John Kerry of holding ‘illegal meetings’ with Iran.
The president tweeted late Thursday: ‘John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people.
‘He told them to wait out the Trump Administration!
‘Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act?
‘BAD!’
Trump was most likely reacting to a segment on Fox News which interviewed Kerry about his activities since leaving office.
President Donald Trump has accused former Secretary of State John Kerry of holding ‘illegal meetings’ with Iran
Kerry also granted an interview to radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday.
The former Massachusetts senator told Hewitt that he met with Iranian Foreign Minsiter Javad Zarif ‘three or four times’ since the Trump administration took office in January 2017.
Kerry acknowledged the meetings, saying that they dealt with the Iranian nuclear deal - which Trump withdrew from earlier this year - and other regional issues.
Under President Barack Obama, Kerry was the lead U.S. negotiator opposite the Iranians in the nuclear talks.
‘What I have done is tried to elicit from him what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East for the better,’ Kerry said.
Later on Wednesday, Kerry appeared on Fox News with host Dana Perino.
Under President Barack Obama, Kerry was the lead U.S. negotiator opposite the Iranians in the nuclear talks. He is seen right with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif at the United Nations headquarters in New York in April 2016
When asked if he told the Iranians to ‘wait out’ Trump until a new president is in place, Kerry did not deny it.
‘I think everybody in the world is talking about waiting out President Trump,’ said Kerry.
Trump and his supporters accuse Kerry of engaging in ‘shadow diplomacy’.
There is also a law on the book, the Logan Act, which prohibits private citizens from conducting foreign diplomacy on behalf of the American government.
But Kerry denied there was anything improper in his talks.
‘Every secretary of state, former secretary of state continues to meet with foreign leaders, goes to security conferences, goes around the world,’ Kerry said.
‘We all do that. And we all have conversations (about) the state of affairs with the world in order to understand them.’
Initial reports that Kerry met with Zarif surfaced in May, when The Boston Globe reported that the two men met at the United Nations in Manhattan in an attempt to salvage the nuclear deal.
Kerry also met with European leaders, including German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Kerry's flurry of clandestine diplomacy highlighted his desperation to save the Iran nuclear deal, which he sees as a signature achievement.
The deal, between Iran and the five permanent members of the US security council, plus Germany and the EU, saw Iran agree to halt its nuclear weapons program for a decade in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
Kerry's involvement in trying to preserve the deal after leaving office came as a surprise to foreign policy experts.
'It is unusual for a former secretary of state to engage in foreign policy like this, as an actual diplomat and quasi-negotiator,' Michael O'Hanlon, a foreign policy expert at the Brookings Institution, told the Globe.
'Of course, former secretaries of state often remain quite engaged with foreign leaders, as they should, but it's rarely so issue-specific, especially when they have just left office.'
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Main photo article President Donald Trump has accused former Secretary of State John Kerry of holding ‘illegal meetings’ with Iran.
The president tweeted late Thursday: ‘John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the Amer...
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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