As leader of President Obama’s negotiating team on the Iran nuclear deal, Wendy Sherman recently launched an unconditional attack on President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy this weekend.
Sherman, who served as assistant secretary of state for political affairs during the Obama administration and as deputy secretary of state under President Biden, took aim at Trump’s Iran policy in recent interviews.
Sherman’s attack on the Trump administration’s war strategy in Bloomberg News raised eyebrows because it comes at a time when the administration’s strategy is putting enormous economic pressure on Tehran’s rulers through the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Former Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman answers a question from a reporter at the State Department in Washington, DC, USA on August 18, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via Reuters)
After playing a key role in brokering the widely criticized 2015 Iran nuclear deal, from which Trump withdrew in 2018, she denounced Trump’s Iran plan in the Bloomberg interview. “He has no strategy. He is very tactical [and] very transactional – as he was as a developer. In this case, I don’t think that approach will work.”
She added: “He has cost our alliances, American taxpayers, thirteen American lives, our weapons inventory and our ability to project power abroad.”
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FILE: Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman (L-3rd from left) meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (2nd from right) at a hotel in Vienna, Austria on June 28, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
Adding to the growing anti-Israel sentiment among Democrats, Sherman also attacked Israel in the interview. She said, without providing any evidence: “I also believe that the Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] has led us down a path – and we have been part of it – that has essentially created a genocide in Gaza that has destabilized the Middle East.”
When asked about Sherman’s criticism of Israel, Dershowitz said, “She is a bigot and anti-Israel. She sees everything through the lens of Barack Obama.”
Obama was criticized during his term for his alleged anti-Israel policies, including allowing an anti-Israel United Security Council resolution to be passed in the final days of his presidency.
Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, September 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith) (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
In an op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal last week, Dershowitz wrote: “The Democratic Party has become the most anti-Israel party in U.S. history. Last week, all but seven Democrats in the Senate voted to impose an arms embargo on the Jewish state… There is no denying that the far-left, anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party has moved from the fringe to the mainstream.”
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