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Friday, January 10, 2020

‘Whistleblower’ calls out John Kerry, says he ‘knows for fact’ Obama admin sent multiple letters directly to Soleimani


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January 10, 2020 |
Middle East expert Michael Doran slammed former Secretary of State John Kerry in a series of tweets exposing the Obama administration’s dealings with Iran.

 “I must become a whistleblower,” Doran, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute specializing in Middle East security issues, tweeted Friday in response to a self-serving opinion piece by Kerry published by The New York Times.

I know for a fact that the Obama admin sent letters – plural – directly to Soleimani,” Doran added, referring to the Iranian military general and Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike ordered by President Trump last week.

 Doran called out Kerry for his op-ed and the “ludicrous and reckless contention” that “diplomacy” with Iran and the nuclear deal negotiated under former President Obama’s watch was working until Trump ruined everything.
“He put his disdain for anything done by the last administration ahead of his duty to keep the country safe,” Kerry wrote, arguing that Trump’s actions empowered Soleimani while the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action actually restrained Iran while protecting America.

 “There were no missile attacks on United States facilities. No ships were being detained or sabotaged in the Persian Gulf,” Kerry claimed.
“There were no protesters breaching our embassy in Baghdad. Iraq welcomed our presence fighting ISIS,” he wrote, touting the “foundation of diplomacy” laid by the Obama administration.

 Doran called for the media and Congress to “excavate” the Soleimani messages and get on the task of declassifying them as well as “presidential correspondence” to Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and its president Hassan Rouhani.
“If Trump’s conversation with Zelensky was in need of a public airing, then surely we are justified in seeing the messages to Soleimani,” Doran added, referring to the president’s phone call with the president of Ukraine last year which triggered the Democrats’ impeachment efforts against him.
“Our diplomacy should not be defined by bluster, threats and brinkmanship, tweets or temper tantrums, but by a vision for peace and security addressing multiple interests of the region,” Kerry wrote in his op-ed, accusing Trump  of acting “recklessly” without a strategy while alienating American allies in the Middle East.

 Trump contends that Iran’s missile attack on a U.S. military base in Iraq was made possible by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal. The president, in his briefing Wednesday,  leveled stinging criticism of the Obama administration which he said laid the groundwork for Iran to fund its actions.

 “Iran’s hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013 and they were given $150 billion, not to mention $1.8 billion in cash,” he said.

 Doran added another tongue-in-cheek tweet about his “patriotic duty to be a whistleblower” while maintaining that he “must remain anonymous.”
No one is holding their breath on a response following the challenge, but plenty of Twitter users were intrigued and followed up with Doran, who has served in the departments of State and Defense, and on the National Security Council.

Frieda Powers

Senior Staff Writer
Frieda@bizpacreview.com

 Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.


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