The Hill – 21 January 2016 – Two high-ranking Clinton campaign officials lashed out against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposal for normalizing relations with Iran.

“This proposal to more aggressively normalize relations and to move to warm relations with Iran not only breaks with President Obama’s policy, it breaks with the sober and responsible diplomatic approach that’s been working for the United States,” Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s senior policy adviser and the State Department’s former director of policy planning, told reporters in a conference call. 

“The proposal would not succeed, but it would cause very real consternation among our allies and partners.”

Brian Fallon, Clinton’s national press secretary, added that Sanders’s position would make him politically vulnerable during the general election, given heightened national fears about terrorism and foreign policy.

Clinton, has been eager to trumpet her time as secretary of State to prove her presidential bone fides, taking credit for bringing Iran to the nuclear negotiating table and for helping manage the Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia, among other issues.

During the debate on Sunday, Clinton said “we need more good days before we move more rapidly toward any kind of normalization” with Iran.