Kerry caps career by siding with America’s enemies

If the mullahs in Tehran want to get on President Trump’s good side, they could start by returning the billions they extorted from a willing Barack Obama.

If they really do want to give back the money, Trump, a good businessman, will take it. However, the mullahs must agree to ship the money back the same way they got it — in cash,

This means that they must come up with U.S. dollars, Euros and Swiss francs, and not worthless Iranian rials.

Some of this money is the $1.7 billion in Iranian assets held by the U.S. that President Obama had flown to Tehran at night on pallets in unmarked planes. It was to keep Iran from walking out on his proposed arms deal in 2013, as well as to pay ransom for the release of four American hostages.

Trump last week, commenting on killing Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s top terrorist, said the billions given by Obama to Iran went to fund terrorism and kill Americans. He said the missiles fired by the Iranians on American targets in Iraq “were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration.”

Given the way the Democrats solemnly speak about Soleimani, it almost appears that he would have been invited to give the keynote speech at the Democrat National Convention had not Trump ordered him killed.

Iran is an economic basket case, so it will be difficult for the mullahs to come up with real money, seeing how they have already spent it all on exporting terrorism.

The only money they have left is their own currency, the rial. As of now, one U.S. dollar is worth 42,105 Iranian rials.

While the U.S. military has some of the biggest transport planes in the world, even its fleet of Lockheed C-5 Galaxys would be hard pressed to lug all the pallets of rials to Washington.

If the Iranians are short of cash, which is the case these days as a result of Trump’s economic sanctions, they could borrow the money from the Chinese, like we do.

Failing that, they could ask multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg for a loan, considering that Bloomberg is a soft touch for losing causes, including his campaign for president.

Once the billions in rials arrive, Trump, in a make nice move, could turn the money over to Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi could then contribute the money to her loyal House Democrats running for re-election. It would be a reward for voting with her to tie the hands of the president so that he could not kill terrorists who kill Americans. The worthless money would fit right in with Pelosi’s worthless cause.

It is little-known joke that Obama was so anxious to work out a nuclear understanding with Iran that he offered John Kerry, his secretary of state, as a hostage.

Joking aside, you can mock and knock Kerry all you want, but he would have relished taking orders from Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister.

Kerry, sucking up to the Iranians, is ending his long political career the way he began it, and that is by befriending the country’s enemies. Back in 1970, the Nixon administration opened peace talks in Paris with the North Vietnamese to end the Vietnam War.

Kerry, a veteran, but still an officer in the Naval Reserve, secretly held his own unauthorized meetings in Paris with the North Vietnamese. He later held a press conference in Washington to urge Nixon to accept the North Vietnamese peace proposals, which he brought back. And that was even before he was elected to anything.

Now, rounding out his long political career, he is at it again, this time siding with the mullahs by bemoaning the killing of Soleimani because it allegedly plays into Iranian hardline strategy.

Kerry, in a column in the New York Times last week attacking Trump over killing Soleimani, never mentions that Soleimani was responsible for killing more than 600 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and maiming thousands more.

Wake up, John. Even the Iranian people are happy Soleimani is dead.

Kerry should have shared the byline on the column with Javad Zarif.