'He and I shared a view of where the United States fit in
the world' by Jerome Corsi
NEW YORK – Critics of the Obama administration’s diplomatic
clash with Israel and tilt toward Iran, resulting in a nuclear “framework
agreement” to be finalized by the end of June, have pointed to the influence of
top White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, who was born in Iran.
Retired Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, former deputy
undersecretary of defense for intelligence under President George W. Bush,
spotlighted Jarrett’s influence in a Fox News interview in February.
“There are many who are now saying that [Jarrett] is really
the architect of this non-treaty with the Iranians,” he said, “which ultimately
will result in the Iranians having a nuclear program, and America having to
accept a nuclear-armed Iran.”
Stanley
Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, noted in a 2011
National Review article Jarrett was
born and raised in Iran for the first five years of her life.
“In explaining how she first grew close to Obama, Jarrett
says they traded stories of their youthful travels,” he wrote.
Kurtz said Jarrett has affirmed that she and Obama “reject
traditional American exceptionalism.”
“One hallmark of America’s exceptionalist perspective, of
course, is our unique alliance with a democratic Israel, even in the face of
intense criticism of that alliance from much of the rest of the world,” Kurtz
commented.
Kurtz cited Obama biographer David Remnick, who quoted
Jarrett saying: “He and I shared a view of where the United States fit in the
world, which is often different from the view people have who have not traveled
outside the United States as young children.”
Remnick wrote that through her travels, Jarrett “felt that
she had come to see the United States with a greater objectivity as one country
among many, rather than as the center of all wisdom and experience.”
‘Secret talks’
Just before the 2012 presidential
election, amid rumors of an “October Surprise” of secret talks between the
United States and Iran, new reports suggested Jarrett might have been
facilitating communication between Washington and Tehran, Fox
News reported.
“Mrs. Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama,
and originally from Chicago, was the main and central player in behind-the-scene
talks between U.S. and Iran leaders,” according to an independent
Persian-language blog.
The blog said Jarrett “attempted to facilitate communication
between officials on both sides.”
Officials on both sides vigorously denied the reports, Fox
News said, but Jarrett’s foreign policy record offers evidence of her
influence.
Jarrett allegedly urged Obama to cancel the operation to
kill Osama bin Laden three times before the Navy SEALs mission May 2, 2011,
according to Richard Miniter’s book “Leading From Behind: The Reluctant
President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him.”
Some observers have questioned why Jarrett receives Secret
Service protection, which is very unusual for presidential aides.
“Jarrett seems to have a 24-hour, around-the-clock
(security) detail, with five or six agents full time,” Democratic pollster Pat
Caddell said in an interview with Breitbart.
“The media has been completely uninterested,” Caddell said.
“We don’t provide security for our ambassador in Libya, but she needs a full
Secret Service security detail. And nobody thinks there’s anything wrong with
this.”
In November 2013, Israeli
TV reported the Geneva negotiations between the
P5+1 powers – the US, Britain, France, Russia, China, plus Germany – and Iran
were a mere “facade,” because the terms of a deal on Iran’s nuclear program had
been negotiated in talks between Jarrett and a leading Iranian nuclear official
that had continued in secret for more than a year.
Israel’s Channel 10 said the Obama administration did not
keep Israel fully informed on those talks.
White House spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan was quoted by
Haaretz as saying the report, which relied on unnamed senior Israeli officials,
was “absolutely, 100 percent false.”
The Channel 10 report said Jarrett led a U.S. team that met
with the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, in
various Gulf states.
According to Israeli TV, the secret channel marginalized
Kerry and was overseen by the president.
Jarrett’s Iranian roots
Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran, to American parents James
E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman.
After receiving his medical degree at Howard University in
1943, James Bowman joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as an
assistant professor of medicine in 1962, where he worked as a pathologist who
helped bring national attention to the need to cure sickle cell anemia. He became
the first tenured black faculty member in medicine.
In 1953, Bowman was drafted into the Army and served at the
Army’s Medical Nutrition Laboratory in Denver, Colorado, as chief pathologist.
Before moving to Denver, Bowman married Barbara Taylor, the
daughter of the first black Chicago Housing Authority chief, Robert Rochon
Taylor. In Colorado, Barbara Taylor Bowman, who had completed a master’s degree
in education at the University of Chicago, taught at Colorado Woman’s College.
According
to a biography posted on the University of Chicago Hospitals website, when James Bowman’s military service ended in 1955,
neither he nor his wife could tolerate “anything that smacked of segregation.”
So, the couple decided to find a position overseas,
relocating to Iran where James Bowman became the chairman of pathology at
Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran, while Barbara Bowman taught
preschool and lectured in psychology and anthropology at the
hospital-affiliated medical school.
On Nov. 14, 1956, Valerie Jarrett was born in Nemazee
Hospital, in Shiraz, Iran.
As noted by political science
professor Paul
Kengor, writing in the July/August 2011 issue of the American Spectator, the Bowman family left Iran for London when Valerie was 5
years old. They eventually returned to Chicago and settled in Hyde Park.
Kengor credited Jarrett’s excellent international education
as the reason as an adolescent she spoke Farsi, the national language of Iran,
as well as French and English.
Noting that the New York Times dubs Jarrett as Barack
Obama’s “old hometown mentor,” he observed: “Valerie would become super-close
to both Obamas, and especially to Barack and his political horizons, becoming
arguably his top advisor over the course of two decades.”
Kengor noted that at each step in his rise to power, “Barack
paused to check the boxes with Valerie, and she opened doors and greased the
skids.”
He concluded one could argue “that no other person on the
planet has done more to help the Obamas get to where they are today.”
Kengor pointed out Jarrett’s father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett,
served on the Citizens’ Committee to Aid Packing-House Workers in Chicago with
Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist Party USA member who mentored a young
Barack Obama in Hawaii.
Source:http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/obamas-iranian-born-adviser-architect-of-deal/
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