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(SeaPRwire) –   Wendy Sherman, who led President Barack Obama’s team in negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, unleashed a fierce critique of President Donald Trump’s approach to Iran over the weekend.

Sherman, a former undersecretary of state for political affairs under Obama and deputy secretary of state for President Joe Biden, targeted Trump’s Iran policy in recent interviews.

Her sharp criticism of the Trump administration’s war strategy in a Bloomberg News interview was notable, as it coincides with the administration applying significant economic pressure on Tehran’s leaders through a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Having been instrumental in finalizing the much-debated 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, which Trump abandoned in 2018, she denounced Trump’s Iran plan in the Bloomberg discussion. “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 stated, “He has cost our alliances, American taxpayers, 13 American lives, our inventory of weapons, our ability to project power abroad.”

Reacting to her contentious remarks, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott issued a strong rebuttal, telling 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 left the Democratic Party by registering as a Republican, told 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.”

Amid rising anti-Israel sentiment within Democratic ranks, Sherman also criticized 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 comments on Israel, Dershowitz responded, “She is a bigot and anti-Israel. She sees everything through the lens of Barack Obama.”

Obama himself was criticized during his presidency for policies perceived as anti-Israel, such as permitting an anti-Israel U.N. Security Council resolution to pass in his final days in office.

In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece last week, Dershowitz wrote: “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.”

Requested to address the criticism of her statements on Iran and Israel and Dershowitz’s remarks, Solveig Reeker, a representative for Sherman, told Digital, “I’m sorry Ambassador Sherman is not available at this time and must decline.”