Secretary of State John Kerry says there was “not one meeting that took place” during the recent Iranian nuclear talks at which the U.S. didn’t raise the issue of four Americans still held captive by Tehran.
In fact, Kerry adds, the issue was discussed during his last meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, before they announced the landmark deal that is meant to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability in exchange for sanctions relief.
The Obama administration has been accused by some critics of missing an opportunity to leverage the Iranian negotiations to secure the release of former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, and retired FBI agent Robert Levinson.
Kerry spoke on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
(AP)
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The release of the captives should have been a condition before the talks began. How low the U.S has fallen
Thanks for raising it at the meetings John. Is showed how serious you and Obama were about it.
Another out and out lie by the Obama ymsh regime. How do we know? Because if it was emes, oblabla would have been screaming that instead of getting petulant with a reporter who stumbled onto a good question.
LIAR LIAR YOUR PANTS ARE ON FIRE!!!!
Interesting that his boss, the detestable one, said in his answer to Major Garret’s question that they didn’t want to complicate the negotiations by tying the release of the hostages to the deal. So either the detestable one is lying or the incompetent one ,Kerry, is lying. And if it is true that they tried getting their release and couldn’t it just continues to prove what a poor negotiator this reject, Kerry, is.
Uh huh and in what way did you force the issue—did you mention it like you mention the weather????