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Kerry Denies Telling Zarif About Israeli Airstrikes in Syria The Media Line Staff 04/27/2021
Former US Secretary of State John Kerry denied that he discussed alleged Israeli airstrikes in Syria with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. In a leaked audiotape that surfaced on Monday, Zarif said that he was surprised to learn from Kerry that Israel had attacked Iranian interests in Syria at least 200 times.
Late on Monday Kerry denied the assertion, and noted that there have been numerous public reports of Israeli attacks on Iranian positions in Syria in recent years.
“I can tell you that this story and these allegations are unequivocally false. This never happened – either when I was Secretary of State or since,” Kerry tweeted.
Leaked Zarif Interview Highlights Lack of Gov’t Mandate with Vienna Talks Resuming Daniel Sonnenfeld
“This was clearly leaked with a bigger political objective in mind,” says expert
UK-based Iran International, a Persian-language news channel, revealed on Sunday a leaked interview of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The three-hour interview, apparently created as an archival project intended to document the current Iranian administration, included a string of surprisingly blunt sayings about the dominance of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iranian foreign policy, compared to the Foreign Ministry’s relative impotence.
According to Iran International and The New York Times (who also had access to the recording), the minister said that the final word on matters of policy belonged to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, or in many cases, to the IRGC. Zarif reportedly claimed he had no influence on deciding the country’s foreign policy.
John Kerry Denies Sharing Secret Intelligence About Israel With Iran
He did not provide Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif with secret information about Israel s strikes in Syria, Biden administration climate czar John Kerry says. Pictured: Kerry, then secretary of state, speaks with Zarif on Jan. 16, 2016, during talks about the Iranian nuclear deal in Vienna.
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Former Secretary of State John Kerry vehemently denied Monday that he had provided Iran’s foreign minister with secret information about Israel’s strikes in Syria, an allegation seized upon by Republicans to call for Kerry’s ouster as the Biden administration’s climate czar.
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