What is this controversey or nontroversy i keep seeing with Kerry on right wing news sites?

[dsp3000]

I dont frequent any right wing websites but the default homepage on my microsoft edge browser seems to pull news from all sources, left and right wing, and i keep seeing something about john kerry meeting with an iranian diplomat. it doesn't seem to be carried by any other news sources besides fux, washington examiner and newsweek. is there anything really controversial or is it bullshit?

[Ohioboy]

1. To me it seems like the right wing media is hoping for some dirt that may not even be there

At this stage, it's one of those "if it's true" situations that get reported hoping people will automatically think it's true.

Supposedly, in a leaked tape of a private conversation Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had with an economist. Zarif said John Kerry told him Israel had attacked Iranian interests in Syria. You would think the Syrians would already know that, but I guess the right- wingers think they've found some secret that Kerry supposedly told the Iranians.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/27/john-kerry-iran-controversy-explained/

From the above article:

"The big one is the timeline. We don’t know exactly when Zarif contends Kerry told him this. But Israel striking Iranian targets in Syria hasn’t been a secret for nearly four years.

In July 2017, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on a hot mic that Israel had struck Hezbollah dozens of times in Syria. By August, an Israeli general confirmed Israel had struck Syrian and Hezbollah arms convoys nearly 100 times in the previous five years. And by September 2018, a senior Israeli official upped the number to more than 200, specifically citing Iranian targets struck in the previous two years."

Even if true, wouldn't it just be John Kerry confirming what Netanyahu already made known?

[FBaggins]

2. He is accused of leaking classified information to Iran

A recording of the Iranian foreign minister was leaked last month where he appears to say that Kerry told him about Israeli attacks in Syria.

Kerry flatly denies the allegations and we don't have any reason to believe that the Iranian minister was telling the truth. Depending on the timing in question, it may also be information that Israel had already discussed themselves.

[stillcool]

3. I don't frequent right wing websites either...

and my default homepage doesn't have them either. Whatever it is you're reading, perhaps you know all there is to know?