Washington – The Obama administration’s lead nuclear negotiator is leaving her post this summer, by which point the U.S. hopes to have reached an accord with Iran.
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State Department officials say undersecretary Wendy Sherman will leave when nuclear talks are complete. Negotiators are hoping to clinch a deal with Iran by June 30.
Sherman has led much of the technical discussions in Europe with Iranian officials over the last two years. During her tenure the U.S. and Iran reached an interim agreement in November 2013 and a framework pact in April.
Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called Sherman a “critical” member of his team, hailing her “tenacity and skill.”
Sherman’s upcoming departure was reported first by The New York Times.
Sherman was instrumental in negotiations related to North Korea’s nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs. In 1994 she brokered an Agreed Framework under which, North Korea agreed to freeze and dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
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Wendy Sherman is a disgrace. She enabled North Korea to go nuclear and is now doing the same for Iran.
She’s no doubt running away so she won’t be blamed when the disastrous results of the deal become revealed and Iran gets the bomb,
An over-hyped social worker who became politically connected.
This is a person negotiating our security?