Sen. Feinstein Dines with Iranian FM Amid Tensions – IOTW Report

Sen. Feinstein Dines with Iranian FM Amid Tensions

WFB: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) had dinner with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, Politico reported Thursday.

Feinstein’s office said her dinner was “arranged in consultation with the State Department.”

The State Department said it had not asked the senior senator from California to attend the dinner.

Zarif has served in his post since 2013. He negotiated the Joint Congressional Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iran nuclear agreement, with then-Secretary of State John Kerry. In February of this year, he announced he would be resigning from the post. After several days of confusion, the Iranian government clarified he would remain in his role.

Politico reported last week that Feinstein was seen holding an unlocked phone with Zarif’s contact information open. At the time, her office declined to confirm her communication with the Persian diplomat.

This week, Zarif accused the United States of playing a “dangerous game” with its response to Iranian escalations. He has refused to negotiate with the White House to calm the situation unless the U.S. shows sufficient “respect” to the theocratic regime.

Tension between Iran and the United States has only heightened since President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA last May. According to information released by the White House in March, Iran is responsible for some six hundred American fatalities in Iraq between 2003 and 2011. more

19 Comments on Sen. Feinstein Dines with Iranian FM Amid Tensions

  1. HMM last week she called AFTER receiving a confidential briefing on Iran and this week she has dinner with him. HHMMMM Using the logic (or lack there of) of the democRATS she is at least colluding with the iranian, Is acting treasonous, or conducting espionage against the USA. We need a special counsel to look into this cozy relationship with the iranians. Along with John Kerry Charge them both with LOGAN ACT Violations like they tried to do to general Flynn.

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  2. Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what was being discussed at the dinner?

    Not that we will ever know, of course, but it would be interesting if we could.

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  3. If the law was broken here or if by her actions Feinstein should lose her security clearance then for pete’s sake let something happen! Charge her, pull her clearance but don’t just let this drift by with no action. If Iran is as dangerous as Trump says they are this can’t go unchallenged unless it was an attempt at backchannelling although I can’t see Trump using her although to be fair nobody would suspect it.

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  4. Where is the gigantic investigation being
    launched of her collusion with a foreign
    adverse government entity.

    DiFi through her husbands political payoffs of
    multimillions from foreign governments is an
    American traitor and a unregistered criminal
    lobbyist of foreign entities.

    Just because these multi-million financial
    transactions happened in her husbands name
    does not mean she had nothing to do with it
    nor that she is immune of it.

    DiFi is an uninvestigated criminal

    If anybody should be impeached it is

    CRIMINAL DiFi !

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  5. Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what was being discussed at the dinner?

    Not that we will ever know, of course, but it would be interesting if we could.

    “Golf and grandkids” Anonymous. “Golf and grandkids.”

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