Angus King Deplores U.S. Striking Iran While Remaining Silent On The Scandal Surrounding Nuke Talks He Took Part In

The so-called independent U.S. senator from Maine blasting Trump’s heeling Iran has been talking a vacuous game on taming Khamenei for a full decade now.

Ten years ago Sen. Angus King, participating in talks designed to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, indicated time was running short.

“The purpose of this potential agreement is to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon,” King said in 2015. “There’s only one thing worse than an Iran that is working to support terrorism and destabilize other regimes – and that is an Iran doing those things while armed with a nuclear weapon.”

Fast forward 10 years, to earlier this week when King roasted the Trump administration for defending its takedown of the Iranian supreme leader and his nuclear-bomb dreams.

The “independent” Maine senator who is actually a Democrat has been among U.S. officials talking – seemingly forever – about adopting the so-calledJoint Comprehensive Plan of Action, known as the Iran nuclear deal.

The agreement between Iran and the U.S., UK, France, China, Russia and Germany was designed to ensure a peaceful nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

Following Trump’s withdrawal in 2018 and subsequent Iranian non-compliance, key provisions of the deal formally expired, leaving the agreement’s future uncertain.

So all talk, no action on Iran’s part for at least a decade of King’s involvement and what’s to show for it?

Nothing, which is why President Trump finally pulled the trigger.

And now suddenly King is whining about America picking a fight it shouldn’t have?

The same guy who ten long years ago fretted over Iran having a nuclear bomb?

Yup, that guy.

The same guy who was breaking bread with another shady character named Trita Parsi as they allegedly were negotiating a way to stop Iran from going nuclear.

Angus failed to look into Parsi’s eyes, a big mistake when you’re supposedly trying to prevent nuclear war.

Parsi co-founded the Quincy Institute which a year ago published a foreign-funding-transparency report calling out Qatar and the UAE for pouring money into American foreign policy institutions.

“On its face, it was a principled stand against foreign influence,” says Jennica Pounds of AmericaMind.org.

“But the same report makes no mention of Chinese money flowing into those same think tanks – despite China representing a far larger geopolitical adversary. Quincy also routinely calls for restraint in Ukraine, placing it at odds with the NATO-aligned establishment that funds it,” Pounds writes in an analysis of Trump’s critics.

Pounds, a data analyst and the co-author of a book mapping the funding networks and personnel pipelines behind America’s unelected governance class, makes another startling point about Parsi.

He also co-founded the National Iranian American Council, an organization whose internal communications, obtained through federal court proceedings, revealed extensive coordination with Iranian government officials, Pounds says.

“And yet Quincy attracts institutional funding from the same Western-aligned order it critiques: George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and Charles Koch’s network provided its founding capital, with additional backing from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and others,” Pounds writes.

Parsi and Angus are in bed together criticizing Trump’s policies towards Iran, describing them as hawkish, while the former is hiding behind a veil of obvious duplicity.

Instead of writing speeches for a Senate hearing where he can look tough lecturing Secretary of State Marcus Rubio, Angus might want to investigate why his buddy apparently hasn’t complied with the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

The U.S. law in force since 1938 requires individuals doing political, lobbying, or public relations work for foreign governments, parties, or entities to register with the U.S. Department of Justice.

The measure aims to expose foreign influence on U.S. policy, requiring disclosure of activities, receipts, and expenses.

Once Angus finishes getting TV time schooling Trump on foreign policy, he would be spending quality time investigating Trita Parsi, with whom he’s been talking for ten years.

The same Trita Parsi who during the Obama administration reportedly visited the White House dozens of times, perhaps without so much as the swipe of a driver’s license.

That’s part of why the U.S. builds Khamenei-busting guided-missile destroyers at Bath Iron Works – two of which are now lobbing missiles at the country Angus claims can’t get a nuclear bomb.

Angus has voted to fund those ships built in the state he purports to represent, all the while missing the big picture for yet another photo opp.