Additionally, calls from the Iraqi government, militia groups, and the public for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq have grown louder. Following the Israeli attack on the Rafah tent camp, Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr even called for the closure of the U.S. embassy in Iraq and the...
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An Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster is believed to have been detained by Iran for months now, authorities said Sunday, further raising the stakes as Tehran threatens to retaliate overan Israeli attack on the country.The imprisonment of Reza Vali...
American public diplomacy personnel met their contacts in their offices or anywhere outside, including at the American cultural centres that were separate from the embassy and open to anyone. Those cultural centres attracted students, scholars and many others who were interesting in using the American...
embassy in Tehran, Iran, taking 66 American hostages. Amid the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge with the Canadian ambassador. Knowing that it's just a matter of time before the refugees are found and likely executed, the U.S. government calls on extractor Tony ...
On November 4, 1979, student supporters of the Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeinistormed the U.S. Embassyin Tehran, taking dozens of American citizenshostage for 444 days. TheIslamic Revolutionthat directly preceded this attack was a seismic ...
Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack in 2020, during an annual rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, marking the 45th anniversary of Iranian students' takeover of the embassy, starting a hostage crisis.Vahid Salemi /...
Washington, D.C.– A now-legendary but long-secret 70-paragraph telegram written by the top political analyst at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in March 1994, E. Wayne Merry, criticizing the American policy focus on radical economic reform in Russia, was published in full today for the first...
In Tehran, thousands at the gate of the former U.S. Embassy chanted, “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” Some burned flags of the countries and effigies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They also carried images of killed top figur...
US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew confirmed that Eygi, who was born in Turkey, was the victim and said the embassy was “urgently gathering more information about the circumstances of her death.” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry condemned Eygi’s death, saying it held the Israel...