Did U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Tell His Iranian Counterpart That He ‘Wished The U.S. Had A Leader Like Iran’s Supreme Leader’?

Secretary of State John Kerry boarding a plane in Paris after negotiations on Saturday. Credit Pool photo by Charles Dharapak/NYT

Washington Times/Free Beacon: John Kerry told Iran he ‘wished U.S. had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader’: report

Secretary of State John Kerry told his Iranian counterpart that he wished the United States had a leader more like Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, according to comments made by a senior Iranian cleric and repeated in the country’s state-run media.

Ayatollah Alam al-Hoda claimed during Friday prayer services in Iran that in negotiations over Tehran’s contested nuclear program, Kerry told the country’s foreign minister that he “wished the U.S. had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader,” according to a Persian-language report on the remarks published by the Asriran news site. “In the negotiations Kerry told [Iranian Foreign Minister Javad] Zarif that he [Kerry] wished U.S. had a leader like Iran’s supreme leader,” according to Alam al-Hoda, who is a senior member of the Iran’s powerful Assembly of Experts.

WNU Editor: I sincerely doubt that John Kerry made such a remark .... but the U.S. State Department has already posted a denial which makes me wonder if the Iranians did this just to see how the U.S. would deny such a report.

Update: On a side note .... this is a hilarious photo of John Kerry reaction to yesterday's joint news conference between President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (the link is here). I am not being critical of him, I would have probably fallen asleep.