U.S. Secretary of State�John Kerry�on Wednesday made the same claim of�Iran�s �elected� government that got Secretary of Defense�Chuck Hagel�in hot water with senators during last month�s confirmation hearing.
Many would argue�Iran�s government is far from duly elected.

Mr. Kerry�made the claim during Wednesday�s stop in�France, as he stood beside French Foreign Minister�Laurent Fabius, according to a report from Foreign Policy.

�Iran�is a country with a government that was elected and that sits in the�United Nations,� he said, according to Foreign Policy. �And it is important for us to deal with nation-states in a way that acts in the best interests of all of us in the world.�

As National Review reports,�Mr. Hagel�made the same claim in January, telling senators�Iran�was �an elected, legitimate government, whether we agree or not.�

Even Vice President�Joseph R. Biden�questions the legitimacy of�Iran�s elected body. Foreign Policy reminds that�Mr. Biden, on a Meet the Press appearance after the 2009 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said �there�s some real doubt� about his win, and that �there�s an awful lot of questions about how this election was run.� And then-press secretary for the White House, Robert Gibbs, said, Foreign Policy reports: �I think there are a number of factors that give us some concern� about that election.

And in June 2009, according to Politico, Sen. John McCain called the Iranian elections a �sham,� at the same time pressing the White House to take action.

�It�s really a sham what they�ve pulled off, and I hope that we will act,� he said, according to the Politico report.

Mr. Kerry�is under a limelight as he makes his first official overseas journey. He�s already committed a couple of diplomatic blunders � the first, on the eve of his trip, when he mixed up two existing nations to create a new country, Kyrzakhstan. And the second, during his stop in Germany, when he told a body of students that Americans have the �right to be stupid,� while making a point about the plusses of constitutional freedoms.

By The Washington Times

 

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