Tag Archives: John Bolton

US recourse to use JCPOA mechanism ‘groundless’

“@AmbJohnBolton has repeated today what he said on May 8, 2018, while National Security Advisor in the Trump administration,” Zarif tweeted early on Monday, referring to an Op-ed by former US National Security Advisor John Bolton who notes that JCPOA supporters are ‘right’ about the fact that “Washington has no standing to invoke its [JCPOA’s] […]

Zarif, Lavrov dismiss Bolton’s allegations about Syria

Referring to the allegations voiced by Bolton in his book ‘The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir’, Zarif stressed on Tuesday that Tehran does not believe such comments. “We think it has nothing to do with the real state of things and the level of cooperation Iran maintains with Russia and Turkey in […]

What we learned from John Bolton’s eye-popping tale of working with Trump

John Bolton

John Bolton details a troubling and shocking series of allegations in a new book about his tenure as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, alleging Trump requested Chinese help to win the 2020 election, that the President argued Venezuela is part of the US, that he casually offered to intervene in the criminal justice system for foreign leaders and that his own senior officials mocked him behind his back.