Disclosed: How Obama Administration Officials Conducted Shadow Diplomacy With Iran To Undermine Trum

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Adam Kredo • May 26, 2022 4:20 pm


Senior Obama administration officials engaged in a secret meeting with Iran in 2018 as part of an effort to undermine the Trump administration's diplomatic push to isolate the hardline regime, according to an internal State Department document.

As the Trump administration worked to increase economic pressure on Iran in 2018, a delegation of "U.S. former ambassadors," including John Kerry, held a secret, "off-the-record" meeting with former Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif at his residence in New York City, according to a State Department memo unearthed this week as part of a lawsuit brought to compel the release of this information.

The internal memo, which is marked unclassified, details how these former U.S. ambassadors conducted shadow diplomacy with Iran's top envoy surrounding "nuclear weapons, potential prisoner swaps, [the] Afghanistan withdrawal, and negotiations with the Taliban," according to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a legal advocacy group that sued the State Department to obtain the internal memo.

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[IsailedawayfromFR]

Not a shadow diplomacy.  That is when it is kept under wraps.

To intentionally undertake diplomacy for the USA when not possessing an official capacity is subversion and treasonous.

[Smokin Joe]

For starters, and egregious violation of the Logan Act.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

For starters, and egregious violation of the Logan Act.

Art III Sec 3:

Section 3
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

[Kamaji]

For starters, and egregious violation of the Logan Act.