A key Republican political strategist who organized resistance to the Iran deal on Capitol Hill contended late Saturday that former officials who served under Obama administration were attempting to orchestrate plans assisting European nations to work around new sanctions on Iran slated by the Trump administration after dumping the failed deal.
“[Richard] Goldberg was reacting to former Secretary of State John Kerry’s admission last week that he had been meeting with Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif in an effort to persuade Iran to stick with the now-defunct Iran nuclear deal, which President Donald Trump withdrew from in May,” Breitbart News reported.
Goldberg took to social media and informed his followers that his European sources told him officials who served under former President Barack Obama have been informing numerous European governments about ways they could dodge the new sanctions against Iran that were announced months ago by President Donald Trump’s State Department.
“I have been told by banking officials in Europe that former senior Obama officials worked with European officials to design sanctions evasion schemes,” Goldberg tweeted Sunday. “This effort was likely closely coordinated with the Islamic Republic. Hard to imagine Kerry didn’t discuss these efforts, as well.”