This is the guy who demanded Michael Flynn be investigated for doing what every official
in a transition government does—talk to counterparts—but now he held a secret
meeting with Iran?
Every time democrats act like hypocrites, which is almost every single minute of every day, the
media is quick to ignore it.
And, that’s apparently the case in the latest slap to Americans performed by Senator Chris Murphy.
He and other democrats held a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during
the Munich Security Conference last week, according to a source briefed by the French delegation
to the conference, potentially undermining the “nation’s foreign policy” and God knows what else was promised
to the terror-supporting regime during the discussion.
The Federalist reported:
Such a meeting would mean Murphy had done the type of secret coordination with foreign
leaders to potentially undermine the U.S. government that he accused Trump officials of doing as they
prepared for Trump’s administration.
In February 2017, Murphy demanded investigations of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn because
he had a phone call with his counterpart-to-be in Russia.
“Any effort to undermine our nation’s foreign policy – even during a transition period – may be illegal
and must be taken seriously,”
Murphy said in 2017 after anonymous leaks of Flynn’s phone call with Russian ambassador Sergey Kisylak
were published.
He also strongly criticized the open letter some Republican senators sent Iranian leaders during the Obama
administration’s campaign for a nuclear agreement.
However, Murphy has previously defended rogue meetings if they’re done by Democrats such as
former Secretary of State John Kerry.
“Unless it was authorized by the president or secretary of state, conducting independent foreign policy sends mixed
signals to our adversaries,” said Christian Whiton, former State Department senior advisor in the Trump
and George W. Bush administrations.
“It seems very unpalatable. If we want to talk to Iranians, they know how to reach us and they don’t
need to go through an intermediary.”
A State Department official who spoke on background said that the State Department was not aware
of any side meetings with Iranian officials that Murphy was engaged in.
The Munich Security Conference, an annual forum on international security policy, welcomes hundreds of world
leaders each February.
This year’s conference featured robust debate on the United States’ maximum pressure policy against Iran,
China’s handling of the coronavirus and technology concerns, and the European alliance with the United States.
Other Democrat senators at the conference included Sens. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Chris Van Hollen
of Maryland.
Former Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts also attended.
Both Murphy and Zarif spoke publicly during a two-hour session on Middle East policy, with Murphy
and Zarif both fiercely criticizing U.S. policy.
President Donald Trump has reoriented American policy in the Middle East away from President Barack
Obama’s friendly posture toward Iran.
He departed from Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a nuclear arrangement with the Republic of Iran that
was not ratified by the United States Senate.
Trump has exerted instead a “maximum pressure” campaign against the regime, with 12 demands
on Iran before a new deal is reached.
Those demands include a full account of its nuclear program, ending its proliferation of ballistic missiles,
releasing all U.S. citizens held on spurious charges, ending support to terrorist groups, withdrawal of forces in Syria,
and cessation of its threatening behavior against its neighbors.
The “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions has devastated the Iranian economy, which is
in recession and faces rising inflation.
It has made it difficult for Iran to pay foreign fighters engaged in supported terror operations.
Iranians have taken to the streets in protest.
Iran recently killed an American contractor in Iraq and the United States killed Iranian
general Qassim Suleimani, a top Iranian leader who was responsible for the killing and maiming of thousands of U.S.
soldiers. Iran’s retaliatory strike for that killing resulted in no U.S. deaths, but the country did shoot
down a Ukrainian passenger plane then lied about it for days.
At the conference, Zarif said official retaliation for the killing of Suleimani had ended, although he
suggested independent attacks from others in the country might follow.
Murphy is a frequent speaker at the National Iranian American Council, a lobbying group with alleged links
to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Republican Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana, Tom Cotton of Arkansas,
and Ted Cruz of Texas recently asked the Department of Justice for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
They wrote that the influential lobbying group “purports to improve understanding between
American and Iranian people but in reality seems to spread propaganda and lobby on behalf
of the Iranian government.”
Evidence indicates that evidence Zarif himself was involved in founding the group.
Courtesy by Georgette
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