{"id":2876,"date":"2026-06-16T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:04:09","slug":"the-world-is-scratching-its-head-john-kerry-calls-trumps-plan-to-end-iran-war-an-attempt-to-fix-his-own-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The world is scratching its head\u2019: John Kerry calls Trump\u2019s plan to end Iran war an attempt to fix his own mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>John Kerry, the former Massachusetts senator who helped negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran as President Barack Obama\u2019s secretary of state, called the Trump administration\u2019s deal to end the war in Iran an attempt to \u201cdig itself out of a hole they dug themselves.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2874\">House panel wants Alan Dershowitz to testify about Jeffrey Epstein, his former client<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The agreement announced Sunday, and set for a ceremonial signing Friday in Geneva, would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift the United States\u2019 naval blockade in the region. The exact contents of the deal, however, were still unclear Tuesday, and the announcement drew a mix of skepticism and criticism from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe world is scratching its head trying to understand what the war has achieved other than higher prices and the unprecedented weaponization of the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Kerry wrote in an emailed statement to the Globe on Tuesday. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Kerry earlier this year called Trump\u2019s threat to wipe out \u201ca whole civilization\u201d in Iran a \u201cprelude to becoming one of the greatest war criminals in history.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kerry, who is traveling for a conference in Kenya, said Tuesday that while \u201cwe don\u2019t know exactly what this page-and-a-half\u201d memorandum of understanding says, the 2015 agreement he helped broker limiting Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons program was working \u201cbefore it was ripped up,\u201d referring to when Trump pulled out of the deal during his first term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That action set \u201cus on a predictable, avoidable eight year trajectory in which Iran accelerated nuclear activity and war became inevitable,\u201d Kerry said Tuesday. \u201cNow there\u2019s a license to negotiate again to try and get back to where we were in 2016, to get enriched uranium out of Iran and inspectors back into Iran. We should all hope for the best.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A 2018 Globe report revealed that Kerry had engaged in shadow diplomacy at the time, using his extensive network of contacts from his time as a top diplomat to salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal he helped craft. The Globe reported that he held undisclosed meetings with European leaders and the Iranian foreign minister to keep the pact alive more than a year after he left office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Globe\u2019s reporting prompted Trump to publicly attack Kerry on social media, calling the behind-the-scenes efforts a \u201cpossibly illegal\u201d violation of diplomatic norms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2872\">Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine wants state to abolish the death penalty, saying it is not a deterrent<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Much remains unknown about the most recent deal Trump announced, including whether it says anything about Iran\u2019s nuclear program or support for its regional allies like Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, issues that the United States and Israel cited to justify the war. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Republicans in Washington have also said they need more information about the agreement, saying there were still many unanswered questions about the deal and they need thorough briefings before it is finalized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI just don\u2019t know enough about it,\u201d Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, told reporters in the Capitol. \u201cEven the people who follow this stuff closely up here don\u2019t know that much about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, reiterated his criticism of Trump\u2019s Iran policy on \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d arguing that the US was \u201cin a much worse position\u201d now than under Obama\u2019s Iran nuclear deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a Sunday post on Truth Social, Trump called for his impeachment, calling Reed a \u201cDumocrat from R.I.,\u201d who he said \u201clied when stating the the [sic] Deal we just made is not as good as the Obama disaster known as the JCPOA. Reed is either an outright fraud, or incompetent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reed told the Globe on Tuesday that \u201cthe truth hurts sometimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think he is trying to establish a situation where he can claim victory and also a better outcome than the JCPOA, and that remains to be seen,\u201d Reed said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2870\">Trump moves oversight of special education and civil rights from the Education Department<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><i>Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry, who helped negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran as President Barack Obama\u2019s secretary of state, called the Trump administration\u2019s deal to end the war in Iran an attempt to &#8220;dig itself out of a hole they dug themselves.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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