It took about 20 seconds for former Secretary of State John Kerry to drop the first blatant lies in his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, when he claimed that the so-called Iran deal of the Obama administration ‘threatened’ an Iran with a nuclear elimination weapon. “It did not get any better.
Kerry is well aware that provisions for sunset in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action provided the Iranian government with a path to build nuclear weapons in a few years. He knows full well that Israel is discovering a gigantic cache of documents with instructions on how to start a program to build a nuclear arsenal, which undermined both the spirit and the understanding of the nonproliferation agreement that Iran signed. He knows that Iran developed ballistic missile programs designed to supply nuclear weapons.
Kerry’s great achievement was the destruction of a sanctions program that worked, thereby rescuing the Islamic Republic from economic ruin. This allowed the Islamist government to strengthen its mandate in Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Yemen and Iraq.
Now, Kerry says that Trump “does not know how to defend the troops”? Well, I’m not sure the man who controlled the billions in direct cash payments to a government that had a hand in the murder and mimicry of hundreds of American troops has the moral authority to level that criticism. Kerry himself acknowledged that relief from sanctions would likely end up in the coffers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard – now a designated terrorist group. Sure, he knew then that the pallets of euros and Swiss francs he sent in Tehran in an unmarked cargo plane would also find their way to the groups that trigger conflicts in the Middle East – and not to kill people back home.
While many advocated for a campaign with maximum pressure against the Islamic Republic, Kerry preferred the route without pressure. The Iran deal, in fact, often seems to be the top obsession of the Obama administration. Nothing would stand in the way. And while the media echo chamber misled the audience at home, Kerry plotted Russia and let a humanitarian disaster in Syria explode in an attempt to save the deal.
Around the time the Obama administration pursued an Iran deal, the Syrian government, backed by the Islamic Republic, had crossed the president’s ‘red line’ and drilled civilians. Michael Doran, a former senior director of the National Security Council, notes that Obama has “shown despair to Iran on the nuclear front” and “the same respect for Iran’s interest in Syria since the beginning of the crisis.” Even when the Union states began funding rebel power in Syria, the administration would presumably not allow the Iranian ally to attack.
When press pressed on the case by some Syrian civil society workers in London, Secretary Kerry snapped: “What do you want me to do, go to war with Russia?” Obama officials – led by Kerry – have long pondered this false choice: the Iran deal as war. Well, we are no longer a party to Iran deal, and there is no war. Meanwhile, there is a strong weakened Iran, and alliances are growing among our Sunni allies and Israel.
Kerry would continue to fire Iranian officials, even after he was removed from government. When Trump ordered a drone strike from the terrorist Qasem Soleimani, a man who masterminded the killing of American soldiers and thousands of Iraqi civilians, Kerry said the world was “in no way” safer, claiming that Trump was a “upright risk” war. “All that Iran did was a performative counterstrike.
Kerry was wrong about Iran. Kerry was also wrong about Israel – a nation he never considered an “ally” in speeches on Obama’s proven foreign policy successes. And when the U.S. embassy was about to move to Jerusalem, Kerry warned that it would lead to “an explosion” in the Middle East – more specifically, “an absolute explosion in the region, not just in the Middle East.” West Bank and perhaps even in Israel itself, but in the entire region. “Moreover, Kerry explained, it would have serious and negative consequences for relations between Israel and the Arab world, making peace much less likely.
Of course, outside of the typical Palestinian sound, the opposite happened. Only recently did Israel and the United Arab Emirates agree to a historic deal that would normalize relations between them. They were undoubtedly brought together in part by the unusual codling of the Obama administration’s mullahs. Other Arab Gulf states are expected to join the UAE, although it is known that many of them already have clandestine working relations with Israel. This week, Sudan, the third-largest Arab nation, announced that it was close to reaching its own peace treaty with the Jewish state.
This all seems pretty significant. It would certainly have been massive news if the Obama administration had helped forge the pacts. At the moment, however, Obama has one more Nobel Prize than he does a peace deal. And time will prove John Kerry wrong.
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