State Department warns John Kerry against undermining Trump's Iran policy
by Joel Gehrke
| September 13, 2018 12:53 PM
Former Secretary of State John Kerry should not try to undermine President Trump’s Iran strategy through his own outreach to the regime, a senior State Department official warned Thursday.
“I don't have personal knowledge of those meetings, but, if that is happening, again, I would find it very inappropriate,†Manisha Singh, the assistant secretary of state for economic affairs, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Kerry has confirmed in recent days that he has met “three or four times†with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif since leaving office. The two played lead roles in negotiating the 2015 nuclear agreement that President Trump decided to exit in May, but their subsequent conversations have drawn charges of shadow diplomacy from foreign policy critics.
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