The United States condemns any Iranian regime involvement in a chemical weapons program and will sanction those involved in any such activity. Today, the United States designated Iranian defense entity Shahid Meisami Group and its director, Mehran Babri, under Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or WMD delivery systems, ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 3 December, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Iranian Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), Sanctions, Shahid Meisami Group and Mehran Babri, United States
For many years, the Iranian regime and its primary tool of regional destabilization, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), have exploited Iraq to advance their own interests at the expense of the Iraqi people. The IRGC-QF’s activities in Iraq continue to undermine Iraqi security, sovereignty, and prosperity. Today, the United States is taking another ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 23 October, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Iran, Iraq, IRGC, Official, Sanctioned, United States
Signatories to this statement reiterate our deep concern regarding Beijing’s decision to impose a national security law in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has flourished as a bastion of freedom. The international community has a significant and long-standing stake in Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability. Direct imposition of national security legislation on Hong Kong by the ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 30 May, 2020 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong SAR, United Kingdom, United States
Today, I am announcing the end of the sanctions waiver covering all remaining JCPOA-originating nuclear projects in Iran – the Arak reactor conversion, the provision of enriched uranium for the Tehran Research Reactor, and the export of Iran’s spent and scrap research reactor fuel. The sanctions waiver covering these activities will end following a final, ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 28 May, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Arak, Bushehr, designation, Iran, Israel, JCPOA, Sanctions, United States, waiver
Chinese authorities routinely prohibit Muslims from practicing their faith — from forbidding fasting during the holy month of Ramadan to punishing halal practices. Regulations in Xinjiang in northwest China specifically forbid men from growing “abnormal beards” and women from wearing veils that cover their faces. Prayer mats and copies of the Quran are regularly confiscated ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 13 April, 2020 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, Human Rights, Near East & North Africa | Tags: China, Iran, Muslims, Uighur, United States, Xinjiang
· Iran’s slick foreign influence campaign to obtain sanctions relief is not intended for the relief or health of the Iranian people but to raise funds for its terror operations. · Since 2012, the regime has spent over $16 billion to fund its terror proxies abroad while Iranian healthcare services have remained woefully underfunded. This ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 7 April, 2020 | Topics: Fact Sheets, Policy | Tags: Fact sheet, Humanitarian Assistance, Iran, IRGC, National Development Fund, President Trump, Qods Force, United States
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 ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 3 April, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa | Tags: Channel, China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Iran, Mahan Air, MSF, United States
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 ...
Read More» 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
Iran needs to be essentially blacklisted from participating in the international financial system after the regime’s refusal to implement restrictions against terrorist financing, an international watchdog group said February 21. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had given Iran’s regime a February deadline to enact restrictions against money laundering and terrorist financing. But the ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 26 March, 2020 | Topics: Economic Affairs, Economic Issues, Near East & North Africa, Press Releases, U.S. & Iran | Tags: Black List, FATF, Iran, IRGC, Pompeo, Rouhani, Sanctions, United States
Today, the United States designated five members of Iran’s Guardian Council and its Elections Supervision Committee who have played a role in denying Iranians their right to free and fair elections. This includes Ahmad Jannati, the Secretary of the Guardian Council, who has in the past praised the killing of political dissidents and previously called ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 21 February, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Elections, Guardian Council, Iran, Jananti, Majles, Michael R. Pompeo, United States
Following a tough and lengthy struggle, American women gained the right to vote in 1920, when Congress ratified the 19th amendment to the US Constitution. Iranian women did not obtain this right easily, either. They earned voting rights in 1963, on the heels of 56 years of protest and persistence. Three women in particular, were ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 19 February, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights | Tags: Elections, Iran, Majles, United States, Women's rights
