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.
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.
Kerry would have us believe that the JCPOA contained rather than enabled Iran. In response to this ludicrous and reckless contention, I must become a whistleblower. I know for a fact that the Obama admin sent letters – plural – directly to Soleimani. https://t.co/yY3NPCZ7Q6
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 10, 2020
“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.
I urge the press and Congress to excavate that correspondence. I challenge former senior Obama officials — Susan Rice, John Brennan, John Kerry, Ash Carter and President Obama himself — to divulge all they know about the Soleimani messages and agree to have them declassified.
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 10, 2020
And I also challenge those former officials to divulge all they know about — and to declassify — presidential correspondence w/ Khamenei & Rouhani. Now that the public has a better understanding of who Qassem Soleimani was, it has a right to understand the messages in context.
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 10, 2020
“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.
If Trump’s conversation with Zelensky was in need of a public airing, then surely we are justified in seeing the messages to Soleimani. Obama officials, we know, have nothing to hide. They say they’re proud of their Iran “containment” policy, so why would they pose any obstacle?
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 10, 2020
“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.”
It’s my patriotic duty to be a whistleblower. Feel free to thank me for my service. But please don’t reveal my identity. I must remain anonymous. I didn’t want to play this role, but history & destiny compelled me to stand & be counted. That, and my desire for a good laugh.
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 10, 2020
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.
My identity is a secret. Please don’t reveal it, lest I be subjected to horrendous acts of harassment and persecution, such as anonymous people on Twitter calling me nasty names, and blue check marks asking, “What happened to you? You used to be such a reasonable guy?”
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 10, 2020
@NHLibertyGirl imagine if this stuff was declassified?!
— sunstamp (@sunstamp) January 10, 2020
Contact @DevinNunes and blow the whistle on these clowns sending letters
— Ron waz (@Rwaz53) January 10, 2020
Kerry laments that Trump has destroyed anything about Iran that he and Obama built. That’s a reason Trump was elected. Everything Obama did should be dismembered.
Holy crap.
— QTheLibertine (@libertine_q) January 10, 2020
There never was an official deal – Iran never signed. It was a zero calorie, zero nutrition, snack.— Wall? What Wall? (@TheRealExpert) January 10, 2020
JOHN KERRY: “Though Mr. Trump has since walked back from the brink of war, I can’t explain the chaos of his presidency as it lurches from crisis to crisis, real or manufactured”.
You’re right Kerry.
ALL MANUFACTURED.
By your buddies in the corrupt fake Press.— Sez777 (@sng0777) January 10, 2020
They didn’t build anything. They just dug a hole… Trump is filling in that hole….
— patti steward*&cupcake* (@pattisteward) January 10, 2020
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