By Jim Geraghty
Monday, April
26, 2021
Buried fairly deep in the New
York Times‘ story about a leaked tape that shows Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign
minister, describing a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military
leader, Qassim Suleimani:
Former
Secretary of State John Kerry informed [Zarif] that Israel had attacked Iranian
interests in Syria at least 200 times, to his astonishment, Mr. Zarif said.
Was it official U.S. policy to inform the
Iranian government – most certainly not an ally – about the covert military
actions of the Israeli government – most certainly an ally? Was this an Obama
administration initiative designed to win over the Iranians by spilling the
beans on the Israelis, or was this John Kerry freelancing and just blurting out
whatever he had been told in his classified briefings?
Just what was the objective of telling the
Iranian government this? (The Iranians probably suspected the Israelis in all
200 or so cases, anyway.)
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