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Has there been corroboration of a report that John Kerry shared Israeli military secrets with Iran?

Wednesday, April 28, 2021
By Austin Tannenbaum
NO

An assertion by Iran’s foreign minister that John Kerry shared Israeli military secrets with Iran has not been corroborated. Kerry, currently the Biden administration’s climate envoy, called the claim “unequivocally false.”

London-based broadcaster Iran International said it obtained leaked audio of the Iranian minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, stating that “Foreign Secretary John Kerry...told me Israel had launched more than 200 attacks on Iranian forces in Syria.”

The broadcaster said Zarif’s statement is “not very credible,” given other media reports about Israeli attacks in Syria dating back to 2017. In July 2017, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was heard on a hot mic stating that he had targeted Iran-backed Hezbollah in Syria “dozens of times.” A 2018 speech by an Israeli intelligence official confirmed that the country had conducted more than 200 attacks over two years.

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