Wendy Sherman, who led President Barack Obama’s negotiating team on the nuclear agreement with Iran, launched a scathing attack on President Donald Trump’s Iran strategy over the weekend. Sherman, who served as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs during the Obama administration and as Deputy Secretary of State under President Joe Biden, targeted Trump’s Iran policy in recent interviews.
Sherman’s criticism of the Trump administration’s strategy, particularly in a Bloomberg News interview, drew significant attention. Her remarks come at a time when the administration is exerting immense economic pressure on Tehran’s rulers through the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Having played a crucial role in sealing the widely criticized 2015 nuclear deal with Iran—a deal Trump withdrew from in 2018—Sherman lambasted Trump’s Iran plan. She stated, “He doesn’t have a strategy. He’s very tactical [and] very transactional — as he was as a developer. In this case, I don’t think that approach will work.” She further claimed, “He has cost our alliances, American taxpayers, 13 American lives, our inventory of weapons, our ability to project power abroad.”
In response to her controversial comments, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott strongly pushed back, telling Fox News Digital, “She was literally part of the team that handed the Iranian regime billions of dollars and a roadmap to a nuclear weapon. She has no credibility. The facts: Under the previous administration, wars broke out, and our enemies grew stronger. Under President Trump, historic peace deals have been signed — including an unprecedented peace plan for Gaza — and the Iranian regime will never obtain a nuclear weapon.”
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, who recently switched his Democratic Party registration to Republican, echoed this sentiment. He told Fox News Digital, “She is the primary villain of the deal that gave Iran a nuclear bomb. She has no credibility. If Iran develops a bomb, it should put her name on it.”
Adding to the growing anti-Israel sentiment among Democrats, Sherman also attacked Israel in the interview. She asserted, without providing evidence, “I also believe that Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] has led us down a road — and we have been part of it — that has, in essence, created a genocide in Gaza that has destabilized the Middle East.”
When questioned about Sherman’s criticism of Israel, Dershowitz responded, “She is a bigot and anti-Israel. She sees everything through the lens of Barack Obama.” Obama himself faced criticism during his tenure for alleged anti-Israel policies, including allowing an anti-Israel U.N. Security Council resolution to pass in the final days of his presidency.
In a Wall Street Journal opinion article last week, Dershowitz further elaborated: “The Democratic Party has become the most anti-Israel party in U.S. history. Last week, all but seven Senate Democrats voted for an arms embargo against the Jewish state… There is no denying that the hard left, anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party has moved from the fringe to the mainstream.”
Asked to respond to the criticism regarding her remarks on Iran, Israel, and Dershowitz’s comments, Solveig Reeker, a representative for Sherman, stated, “I’m sorry Ambassador Sherman is not available at this time and must decline.”
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