Iranian diplomats and their families living in New York face US travel curbs

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Iranian diplomats and their families living in New York face US travel curbs
Reuters, United Nations Wednesday, 17 July 2019

The United States has tightly restricted the travel of more than a dozen Iranian diplomats and their families living in New York, according to a US diplomatic note to sent to the Iran Mission to the United Nations and seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

The diplomats are subjected to the same rules imposed by the United States on Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who arrived on Sunday amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

They may only travel between the United Nations, the Iranian UN mission, the Iranian UN ambassador’s residence, and John F. Kennedy airport. There is also a carve-out for the six blocks surrounding Queensboro Plaza in Long Island City in the borough of Queens. It was not immediately clear why.

Read more at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2019/07/17/Iranian-diplomats-families-living-in-New-York-face-US-travel-curbs.html

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It was not immediately clear why.


Probably because we haven’t forgotten the Iranian government 2011 plot to hire drug cartel members to kill the Saudi ambassador in a DC restaurant.