Michael Crowley, Nicholas Fandos and Farnaz Fassihi,
New York Times Service
April 27, 2021 | 10:09 AM
John Kerry, a former secretary of state and longtime U.S. senator from Massachusetts, said Monday that he had never discussed covert Israeli airstrikes in Syria with Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, contrary to Zarif’s claim in a leaked conversation.
Zarif and Kerry spoke constantly when the two were negotiating the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The Iranian foreign minister said in the recording, reported by The New York Times on Sunday, that Kerry had informed him that Israel had attacked Iranian interests in Syria at least 200 times.
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