Trump blasts Kerry for attempts to salvage Iran deal

US President Donald Trump takes former US secretary of state John Kerry to task for his efforts to salvage the Iran nuclear deal ahead of Trump’s May 12 deadline for deciding on whether to pull out of the pact.

“The United States does not need John Kerry’s possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy on the very badly negotiated Iran Deal,” tweets the US president, who is widely rumored to be readying to pull out of the deal.

“He was the one that created this MESS in the first place!” Trump adds.

According to the Boston Globe, Kerry recently met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss possible ways of salvaging the deal.

The Globe’s source said Kerry also met recently with other top officials to discuss strategies to maintain the accord, including German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and French President Emmanuel Macron.