POLITICO’s Laura Rozen reports that a spokesman for Senator John Kerry (D-MA) is denying rumors that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman is laying groundwork to visit Iran.
Yesterday, Iranian media reported comments from the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman that the Iranian parliament was considering an alleged request filed by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to travel to Iran.
Today, Fred Jones, spokesman for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told POLITICO that “John Kerry has no plans to visit Iran.”
Jones added that “We never discuss the Senator’s private or diplomatic conversations.”
Asked if that implied that Kerry was exploring the possibility of meeting Iranian officials elsewhere in a third country, Jones said no. “There are no plans to meet with any Iranian officials abroad.”
And at face value, Jones’s “statement Wednesday does not seem to be the kind of flat denial that Kerry had filed such a request, but doesn’t seem to indicate such a meeting is imminent.”
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