Former Secretary of State John Kerry criticized the decision taken by President Trump to pull the US out or the Iran nuclear deal, defensing his recent conversations with world leaders.
“My conversations with these people are the normal conversations that I assure you every former secretary of state has with leaders in other countries with people that we know as we try to educate ourselves and make sure we’re up to date on what’s happening in the world. These are normal conversations. And all I did was suggest to them, ‘Look, you guys really ought to try to keep the agreement. I hope you’ll keep the agreement and continue to keep the agreement'”, Kerry said in an interview with MSNBC.
The former diplomat was accused of 'shadow diplomacy' over his talks with world leaders.
Kerry added that Trump's decision will create confrontations, isolate the country and place U.S. foreign relations in a precarious situation
“What the president has done by withdrawing unilaterally is placed the United States in breach of this agreement,” Kerry said. “He has literally taken a situation where there was no crisis and created crisis by transferring to Iran sanctions that were meant with respect to the nuclear agreement itself.”
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