US President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday confirmed his selection of Wendy Sherman as deputy secretary of state.
Sherman, a chief US negotiator for the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, will be nominated for the role under Biden’s nominee for the secretary position, Tony Blinken. Her selection had been reported by Politico earlier this week.
Working with then-deputy secretary of state Blinken, Sherman was a key architect of the Iran nuclear deal, which exposed her to criticism from parts of the pro-Israel establishment in Washington. Invoking her own Judaism, she has described the dissent the Obama administration faced over the multilateral accord from the American Jewish community as the most “painful” part of its efforts to push the deal through. (Read More)
