Level 4 Travel Warning Last updated: 12/09/2021 *** Effective December 6, 2021, all airline passengers to the United States ages two years and older, regardless of vaccination status or citizenship, must provide a negative COVID-19 viral test taken within one calendar day of travel. Alternatively, travelers to the United States may provide documentation from a licensed health care provider of having recovered from COVID-19 ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 9 December, 2021 | Topics: Alert, Near East & North Africa, U.S. Citizen Services | Tags: Alert, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Iran
For years, Iran has claimed its space program is purely peaceful and civilian. The Trump Administration has never believed this fiction. This week’s launch of a military satellite by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, makes clear what we have said all along: Iran’s space program is neither peaceful nor entirely civilian. In February 2020, the head ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 27 April, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, embargo, EU, ICBM, Iran, IRGC, Program, Space, UN
Iranian academics are faulting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for stifling information on COVID-19 and declining foreign aid, allowing the country’s outbreak to grow into “a national disaster.” In the March 29 letter, reported by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI),
100 academics call Khamenei “the Number 1 culprit” for COVID-19 sweeping the nation unchecked. Now one Iranian is ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 9 April, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Reports | Tags: COVID-19, IRGC-QF, Khamenei, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), National Development Fund, Qom
Iran’s leaders have repeatedly refused outside offers to help everyday Iranians who are suffering from COVID-19, worsening the regime’s failed response to the outbreak. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the aid group also called Doctors Without Borders, said March 24 that Iran’s regime rejected previously agreed upon plans for a 50-bed treatment unit for COVID-19 patients ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 3 April, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa | Tags: Channel, China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Iran, Mahan Air, MSF, United States
The U.S. government has rapidly mobilized unprecedented resources to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, both at home and abroad. The United States has made available nearly $274 million in emergency health and humanitarian funding. Along with the U.S. private sector, the American people continue to lead in responding to this pandemic. The $274 million will ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 31 March, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Official Reports, Public Affairs, Science & Tech, U.S. & Iran, U.S. Agencies | Tags: Assitance, Coronavirus, COVID-19, humanitarian aid, Humanitarian Assistance, Iran, President Trump, US
U.S. innovators are rushing to combat the new coronavirus, with vaccines already in development and new treatment options being tested in the United States and Asia. The rapid response received a boost this month as President Trump signed into law
$8.3 billion in federal funds to fight COVID-19. The funding is helping federal agencies and their private-sector partners to quickly ...
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By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 26 March, 2020 | Topics: Alert, Emergency Services, Events, Health Issues, Near East & North Africa, News, Science & Tech, U.S. Agencies | Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, President Trump, United States, Vaccines
