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If ever anyone should have been looked into for a Logan violation, it was folks formerly in the Obama administration who were negotiating with Iran to try to preserve the Iran Deal in direct contravention of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy endeavors.
They even had such nerve about it after they were busted on it, John Kerry admitted it, basically saying, yeah I was meeting with them, he claimed he had the right to, as a former Secretary of State.
But seriously whether you call it the Logan Act or look at other potential offenses, this is most definitely wrong and a big deal to be undermining our position with an avowed enemy of the United States, who chants regularly “Death to America!”
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Former Obama administration officials, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, went behind President Donald Trump’s back in backchannels with Iran, sources told
The Washington Times. Some of the architects of the Iran nuclear deal met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after Trump withdrew from the deal.
A slew of former Obama officials, including Kerry, Obama’s Middle East advisor Robert Malley, and Obama-era Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, met with Zarif during the Trump years. Kerry, Malley, and Moniz led negotiations in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in which the U.S. provided sanctions relief and access to tens of billions of dollars in frozen bank accounts in exchange for Iran’s promises to limit nuclear enrichment.
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The Iranian flag is flown outside the building housing the reactor of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. (Photo: AFP/Berhouz Mehr)
In essence, the administration’s response to Iran’s aggressive words and deeds has been to reaffirm its commitment to the policy it established last week, when it accepted an invitation from the European Union (EU) to resume talks with Iran on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA.)
However, there was one subtle but significant change. In discussing last Monday’s rocket attack on the base of the US-led anti-ISIS Coalition in Erbil, State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said on Feb. 21, “There will be consequences for any group responsible for this attack” (emphasis added.)