Yet they continue to negotiate in good faith in Vienna with the Islamic Republic. Why?
“Biden Admin: Former Trump Iran Envoy Facing ‘Serious and Credible’ Threats,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, January 26, 2022:
The Trump administration’s Iran envoy is facing “serious and credible” threats to his safety, according to a non-public assessment produced this month by the State Department and viewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The determination was delivered to Congress amid a campaign of public death threats by Iran aimed at former president Donald Trump and top administration officials.
The State Department in an unclassified but non-public assessment provided to Congress on Jan. 11 determined that a “specific threat persists with respect to former special representative [for Iran] Brian Hook,” who helmed the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign on Tehran and was instrumental in the assassination of Iranian terror leader Qassem Soleimani. The document does not name the actors behind the threats, describing them only as a “foreign power or the agent of a foreign power.”
Iran, however, has repeatedly threatened to kill Trump administration officials, including Hook, as payback for the 2020 drone strike on Soleimani. The State Department determination indicates that Hook has been under a “serious and credible” threat since at least January 2021, when Trump and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo were still in office. The Biden State Department determined on three separate occasions, most recently November 2021, that the threats persist, according to the notification.
The State Department’s latest assessment comes amid public comments by top Iranian leaders that threaten the lives of Trump and senior members of his administration. Iranian government accounts on Twitter and other social media sites promised multiple times this month to assassinate Trump, with the regime issuing an official video that depicts a drone strike on the former president. The Biden administration says it takes these threats seriously and will do everything it can to protect former and current officials.
The State Department’s notice to Congress was issued just days after a former top Iranian official bragged about the death threats against Hook in the Iranian media. Hussein Mousavian, a former member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team who works as a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, sparked a media firestorm when he was seen touting the threats against Hook in a documentary produced by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
“I went to America and an American told me that Brian Hook’s wife can’t sleep, she cries and trembles, she told Brian, ‘They’ll kill you,’ since Hook was a partner in the death of Haj Qassem [Soleimani], that’s how much they were trembling,” Mousavian said in the documentary 72 Hours, produced and released this month by a company tied to the corps.
Iran has tried multiple times during the past several years to assassinate and kidnap enemies outside its borders, including in the United States. Four members of an Iranian intelligence network were indicted last year in a New York federal court for attempting to kidnap a prominent regime opponent, highlighting Tehran’s reach into the United States. Iran also tried to assassinate the U.S. ambassador in South Africa, as well as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Washington, D.C.
Mousavian’s comments—as well as his close ties to the Iranian ruling regime—put Princeton in the hot seat, with U.S. advocacy groups calling on the high-profile university to fire him. Mousavian, who regularly travels between Iran and the United States, has worked at Princeton since 2009 and has served in senior roles for the Iranian regime. His perch at Princeton demonstrates how Tehran has been able to mainstream its allies into prominent positions at U.S. universities and other American outposts, such as D.C.-based think tanks….
11B40 says
Greetings:
He certainly seemed to me to be the right man for the job. No wonder the mullahs would want him dead and gone.
mortimer says
Brian Hook put his life on the line for his country as much as any soldier who goes into combat, but his luncheons were nicer than field rations and needed to be checked for poison.
God watch over ambassador Hook and his family and defend them from these STUNNED, BACKWARD, BRONZE-AGE, BARBARIC SAVAGES.
I hope he writes a book to expose these cold-blooded liars.
mortimer says
Anyone who negotiates with the Shi’ite mullahocracy needs to demand some very serious and substantial COLLATERAL!
Why? Because Shi’ite ayatollahs are experts in TAQIYYA and they have mastered its black arts to a higher degree than even the old KGB mastered ‘dezinphormatsiya’.
Iranians don’t believe a word from these long-bearded old goats. Why would sophisticated, globalist, modernist Americans believe them or expect the least bit of good-faith? The Bribed-man and John Kerry’s negotiators must be somewhat naïve and uninformed. No, make that ‘extremely’ naïve.
Wellington says
Admittance does not necessarily equate to doing anything about the matter at hand.
Put another way, counting on anyone in the Biden Administration doing the right thing, courageously standing up to oppression and ignorance, is a fool’s errand. Fitting since the entire faux Biden Administration is peopled by fools. Anyone doubting me, name a single major Biden Administration official who is not a fool.
Waiting.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Wellington.
Infidel says
Given that Brian Hook was a Trump official, I’m pretty sure that the Biden Administration is secretly hoping that Iran carries through its threat. In fact, they’d be happy if Iran can take out even more conservatives, making it easier for the Dems
That’s how evil the Democrats are
gravenimage says
Biden State Department admits Trump’s Iran envoy is facing ‘serious and credible threats’
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Will the Biden administratio do anything to protect this man, or are they too busy enabling a nuclear Iran?
Walter Sieruk says
All true patriotic Americans should let that treasonous villain Joe Biden and others like him get us down.
Let’s remember the old Latin saying “Liiegitimi non carborundum.”
Walter Sieruk says
To say that “Joe Biden is terrible” is an understatement. Biden is horrendously awful, he’s ruining everything both nationally and internationally.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Walter.
All of this destruction to United States – and the rest of the Western world.
After just one year…
Lookout says
the Biden mob couldn’t protect their own marines while they were in control of Afghanistan. Nor can they control the millions of criminals crossing our borders. So how effective will they be at protecting people who move around as free citizens? If there is an attack it will become another Biden failure to add to his & Hilary’s list of disasters.