Four Questions About the Iran/Kerry Allegations

Republicans have been quick to criticize the former secretary of state based on the word of someone they normally wouldn’t trust.

In a leaked recording of a three-hour-long conversation, Iran’s minister of foreign affairs, Javad Zarif—more rightly called Iran’s minister of propaganda—tells an interviewer that, when Donald Trump was president, former Secretary of State John Kerry told Zarif about Israeli strikes against Iran in Syria. Within hours, Republican officeholders and presidential hopefuls were tripping over one another to call for Kerry to be ousted from the Biden administration, in which he is working on climate-related policy and diplomacy. Republican-aligned news outlets were quick to bounce onto the bandwagon.

Kerry himself denies the allegations:

Considering the seriousness of the allegation and the untrustworthiness of its source, here are five questions that deserve answering.

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