Former Secretary of State John Kerry, who first came to fame telling the Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 that U.S. soldiers had committed atrocities in Vietnam, now has decided that his supposedly good legacy would be tarnished if President Trump scuttles Kerry’s most prized possession, the Iran nuclear deal. Thus Kerry is undermining the president by conducting shadow diplomacy with foreign leaders, including Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, European Union official Federica Mogherini, and France’s Emanuel Macron to try to undermine Trump’s possible decision to leave the deal altogether.
The Boston Globe, proud of its native son, writes, “With the Iran deal facing its gravest threat since it was signed in 2015, Kerry has been on an aggressive yet stealthy mission to preserve it, using his deep lists of contacts gleaned during his time as the top U.S. diplomat to try to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside.”
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