The Washington, DC, outlet Axios reported on Thursday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally ordered Iranian diplomats, allegedly in the United States to attend last week’s U.N. General Assembly, to leave the country after low-level discussions with the U.S. failed to produce results.
\n\nTwo anonymous sources told Axios that the expulsion occurred; one of them described the reason as the Iranians “overstay[ing] their welcome” in America. The outlet described the situation as a “highly unusual diplomatic rebuke” from the State Department, particularly given that the Iranian delegation included high-level officials, most prominently Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
\n\nReports throughout the past two weeks indicated that informal conversations regarding the ongoing conflict between American and Iran had been taking place on the sidelines of the General Assembly, but had gone nowhere. Araghchi went public late last week with a proposal for the White House to end the American blockade of Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz – which has devastated Iran’s already limited oil industry – but President Donald Trump told reporters this weekend that he was not interested in the agreement. Trump suggested the Iranians were “desperate” to end the blockade, given the damage to the national economy…
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