Kerry Baffled By Iran’s Anti-American Remarks After Nuke Deal


Kerry said, “I don’t know how to interpret [what Iran’s supreme leader said this past weekend] at this point in time, except to take it at face value, that that’s his policy. But I do know that often comments are made publicly and things can evolve that are different. If it is the policy, it’s very disturbing, it’s very troubling.”

Why is this suddenly ‘disturbing’ or ‘troubling’ to Kerry now? Previously, Kerry dismissed similar comments from Khamenei, as reported by DC Clothesline :

 Concerns were heightened among conservatives when Secretary Kerry recently hailed progress with the Tehran government, despite Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei telling a cheering crowd Tehran that Iran would never give in to any of the Western demands. When the crowd started shouting, “Death to America,” the Ayatollah responded: “Of course yes, death to America, because America is the original source of this pressure” as reported by the Times of Israel on March 21, 2015.

What raised both Republican and Democrat eyebrows was the White House response to Khamenei’s call for the destruction of the United States. As CNN reported (via The Weekly Standard), the White House just sees the “Death to America” talk as “intended for a domestic political audience.”

So the deadly sentiment was OK in March because it was intended for Iranian locals, but now it is ‘disturbing’.

 

Here’s the Ayatollah reassuring the crowd in Tehran that the nuclear deal has not altered his hatred for America or Israel:

Source: DC Clothesline



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