This applies here as well,
@PeeD . That is my take on this debacle. If these people were born in US, they would have been Trumpers.
I don't know what political convictions the Zarif-critics you are referring to would have had if they were born in the US (to be honest, such fictive speculations aren't very rigorous from a scientific point of view), but when it comes to the competing political camps within the Islamic Republic and their respective positions towards the major political parties of America, here's what I can tell with certainty:
Whereas the revolutionary camp in Iran equally rejects both the Republican and the Democrat cabals, considers them as two sides of the same coin and doesn't view either as being favorable for Iran, Iranian reformists and moderates fully side with the Democrats in the context of US domestic politics, and are firm believers in the idea that a Democrat administration in Washington represents some sort an opportunity of not an outright blessing for Iran.
During the last US presidential election, liberal Iranian newspapers and speakers literally acted like a political campaign staff for Joseph Biden. You should have seen the frontpages of reformist and moderate publications. They were acting as if their domestic Iranian audience was going to vote in the US election - truly one pathetic show! And when Biden was finally elected, those same reformist and moderate mouthpieces reveled in joy as if some reformist or moderate candidate had won an election in Iran.
This is no coincidence. For if you dig a little bit, all the connections that exist between the Democrat side of the US regime (as well as its para-political extensions and its globalist oligarchic backers) on the one hand, and liberal elites in Iran on the other hand will come to the surface. From Khatami's 2006 meeting with George Soros in Boston, first revealed by the US publication Newsmax, to the so-called "group of New Yorkers'" (Zarif and friends') personal relations with (pro-)Democrat politicians and associations such as the NIAC, there clearly is a semi-official bond of sorts between parts of the US regime and liberal forces in Iran. There is no equivalent to this among the revolutionary camp of the Islamic Republic, which has no ties whatsoever to any American regime entity, whether Republican or Democrat.
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