One year ago the United States, in conjunction with the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS and our local Iraqi and Syrian partners, launched an operation that took out Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). This followed the destruction of ISIS’s fraudulent territorial “caliphate” and was another major victory ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 27 October, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Baghdadi, Coalition, Dead, ISIS, Michael R. Pompeo, US
President Donald J. Trump, Sudanese Chairman of the Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke today to discuss Sudan’s historic progress towards democracy and opportunities to advance peace in the region. After decades of living under a brutal dictatorship, the people of Sudan are finally ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 24 October, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: Israel, Sudan, US
The Trump Administration has made clear that the United States will do whatever it takes to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism, from spreading death and mayhem throughout the Middle East and the world. Rather than wait for the day that Iran threatens the world with ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 21 September, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: 2231, Iran, New, Sanction, US
The Trump Administration has always understood that the greatest threat to peace in the Middle East comes from Islamic Republic of Iran, whose violent efforts to spread revolution have killed thousands and upended the lives of millions of innocent people. History shows appeasement only emboldens such regimes. Thus today, the United States welcomes the return ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 19 September, 2020 | Topics: Near East & North Africa, Statements | Tags: 2231, Iran, JCPOA, Pompeo, Sanction, UN, UNSCR, US
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 ...
Read More» 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
This past week, the IAEA issued two reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran is hiding nuclear material – its nuclear material and nuclear activities. Iran is party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran’s safeguard agreements under that treaty require it to declare nuclear material to the IAEA and provide the IAEA inspectors with full ...
Read More» By Virtual Embassy Tehran | 5 March, 2020 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, Statements | Tags: Iran, Nuclear, Pompeo, Sanctions, UNSC, US
