When radical Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran 41 years ago and held dozens of American diplomats and embassy employees hostage, they violated international diplomatic norms and precipitated U.S. economic sanctions against Iran. While the students released 14 hostages after a short time, they did not free 52 other Americans for well over ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 2 November, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
“Instead of using its natural resource wealth to improve living conditions for the Iranian people, the Iranian regime prefers to pawn its oil to fund the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and support its terror proxies as they sow chaos and destruction around the Middle East. We will not let that happen.” – Secretary ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 30 October, 2020 | Topics: History, Human Rights, News | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
“The world needs to unite around the central idea that the Islamic Republic of Iran is the greatest threat, and when that regime changes its behavior, we have the chance to create true global stability in the region. It’s what President
@realDonaldTrump asked us to do.” – Secretary Pompeo Tweet, September 21, 2020 Major New Human ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 26 September, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
“The one-sided nuclear deal didn’t bring security for America, stability in the Middle East, or a change in the regime’s behavior – it never will. Re-establishing the
@UN Arms Embargo on Iran puts pressure Iran to behave like a normal country and come back to the bargaining table.” –Secretary Pompeo Tweet, August 27, 2020 DESIGNATIONS FOR ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 28 August, 2020 | Topics: News | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
“Our message is very, very simple: the United States will never allow the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes, tanks, missiles, and other kinds of conventional weapons. These UN sanctions will continue the arms embargo.” –Secretary Pompeo Remarks, August 20,2020 Statement by Secretary Pompeo On Designations for Iranian Human ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 22 August, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
Special Representative for Iran and Senior Advisor to the Secretary Brian Hook Visits Israel for Consultations on Iran (July 1) Special Representative for Iran and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State Brian Hook held discussions on Iran with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in Jerusalem, Israel on ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 1 July, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
This Week in Iran Policy (June 26) “The United States has been clear about our expectations. We’ve been clear about our goals. We ask the Islamic Republic of Iran to behave like a normal nation. We’re happy to engage in conversations with them when the time is right, but the conditions that suggest somehow ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 26 June, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Arms Control, Iran, Iran Policy
IAEA Board of Governors Adopts Resolution, Calls on Iran To Cooperate Without Further Delay (June 19) Today, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a resolution calling on Iran to provide IAEA inspectors the information and access they have requested and that Iran is obligated to provide. Iran’s denial ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 19 June, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy, Secretary Pompeo
This Week in Iran Policy (June 19) “Iran has a choice: It can answer the IAEA’s questions and comply with the legitimate requests for access, let inspectors travel freely, and be transparent about its activity, or Iran can take its current path of stonewalling and deception. This, however, will only increase Iran’s diplomatic isolation. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 19 June, 2020 | Topics: News, Policy, Political Affairs | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
This Week in Iran Policy (June 5) So great to have Michael home. Just arrived. Very exciting. Thank you to Iran. Don’t wait until after U.S. Election to make the Big deal. I’m going to win. You’ll make a better deal now! – President Trump, @realDonaldTrump, June 5 STATEMENT BY SECRETARY MICHAEL POMPEO ON ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 5 June, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran Policy, Secretary Pompeo
Iran’s regime spends billions to limit citizens’ internet access (June 3) Iran’s regime has spent at least $4.5 billion to build a domestic intranet that would further tighten restrictions on everyday Iranians’ internet access. The regime has long blocked thousands of web sites. Now the government is seeking greater control over content through a ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 3 June, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights, Iran, Iran Policy
This Week in Iran Policy (May 29) “President Trump’s maximum pressure campaign has constrained and countered Iran in unprecedented ways. We have deprived the clerical rulers of vast amounts of revenue. We have disrupted their financial networks and their sectarian networks. Because of our pressure, Iran’s leaders are facing a decision: either negotiate with ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 29 May, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
This Week in Iran Policy (May 22) “Our maximum pressure campaign also entails demanding that the regime in Tehran treat its own people with respect and dignity. Today, the United States announces that it is imposing sanctions on 12 Iranian individuals and entities under human rights authorities.” -Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, Podium Briefing, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 22 May, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy, Secretary Pompeo
Iran struggles with economy broken by regime failures (May 20) The Iranian regime is struggling to avoid economic disaster after the regime’s years of economic mismanagement and terrorist financing. More than 7 million Iranians have lost their jobs or been furloughed during the COVID-19 crisis, regime spokesman Ali Rabiei recently acknowledged, according to Voice ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 May, 2020 | Topics: Human Rights, News | Tags: Coronavirus, economic security, good governance, Iran, Iran Policy, Terrorism
This Week in Iran Policy (May 15) “The Iranian people too know that the resources, the money being squandered, the loss of life that’s taking place – Iranian life – that’s taking place inside of Syria is not a good use of funds, especially at a time when Iran’s economy is suffering from low ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 15 May, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
Iranian regime’s history of provocations continues (May 13) The Iranian regime’s seizure of a Hong Kong-flagged tanker and harassment of U.S. forces in April are the latest in its pattern of violence. Over the past year, the regime or its proxies have downed a U.S. drone, attacked oil fields in Saudi Arabia and shelled ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 13 May, 2020 | Topics: News, President of the United States | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy, Iran Regime, President Trump
This Week in Iran Policy (May 8) “They’re telling the world that they’re broke and they need relief from American sanctions, they need humanitarian assistance. But we’ve offered humanitarian assistance, and the ayatollah and the kleptocrats, the theocrats that lead the Iranian regime today are still out spending money on things that don’t benefit ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 8 May, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Arms Control, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, China, Conventional Weapons, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Global Health, Iran, Iran Policy, Office of the Spokesperson, Russia, The Secretary of State, Weapons
Iran’s Space Program is Dangerous, Not Peaceful (April 25)
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE For years, Iran has claimed its space program is purely peaceful and civilian. The Trump Administration has never believed this fiction. This week’s launch of a military satellite by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, makes clear what we have said all along: Iran’s space program is ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 25 April, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Arms Control, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Countering Terrorism, Iran, Iran Policy, Secretary Pompeo
This Week in Iran Policy (April 24) “If Iran needed aid on this, I would be willing to do something…they were hit very hard. Obviously, those numbers weren’t correct numbers that they reported. But if they needed help, if they needed aid, if they needed ventilators — we have thousands of ventilators currently on ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 24 April, 2020 | Topics: Key Documents, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
Iran’s History of Naval Provocations (April 22) “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.” -President Donald J. Trump, Twitter, April 22, 2020 Iran has long used its naval forces to terrorize the international maritime community – this ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 23 April, 2020 | Topics: Key Documents, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
Iran’s Sanctions Relief Scam (April 6) “I think the Iranian [people] love America. I think they’d love to be free…They love what we stand for…if they need help with respect to the virus, we have the greatest medical professionals in the world. We’d love to send them over.” -President Trump, Remarks to the Press ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 6 April, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy, Iran Sanctions
This Week in Iran Policy (April 3) “… As we’ve said for the detainees in Iran, now is the most appropriate moment to use this humanitarian challenge as a reason to allow these people to return to their families and their loved ones. State Department’s working hard to get them back.” -Secretary of State ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 3 April, 2020 | Topics: Key Documents, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
Iran’s regime refuses virus aid, slighting its people (March 31) 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 ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 31 March, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy, Iran Regime
Restrictions on Iran’s Nuclear Program Continued (March 30) The United States is renewing four restrictions on the Iranian regime’s nuclear program for an additional 60 days. Iran’s continued expansion of nuclear activities is unacceptable. The regime’s nuclear extortion is among the greatest threats to international peace and security. As President Trump said earlier this year, Iran ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 30 March, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy, Iran Sanctions
This Week in Iran Policy (March 27) “Our pressure campaign remains designed to induce Iran to act like a normal country. I urged our G7 partners to go further in joining us – and they should especially stand with the U.S. in ensuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon.” Secretary of State Mike ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 27 March, 2020 | Topics: News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
This Week in Iran Policy (March 20) “We made a commitment to do everything we can to provide them with all that America can deliver for Iran. I hope they’ll accept that offer. That alone will contribute to Iran being able to manage this problem set for the Iranian people. I hope they’ll take ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 March, 2020 | Topics: Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy, Iran Sanctions
This Week in Iran Policy (March 13) “The United States calls on the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately release on humanitarian grounds all wrongfully detained Americans being held in Iran. The United States will hold the Iranian regime directly responsible for any American deaths. Our response will be decisive.” – Secretary Pompeo, Press ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 13 March, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, Key Documents, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: and Labor, Bureau of Democracy, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Global Health, Human Rights, Iran, Iran Policy, Secretary Pompeo
This Week in Iran Policy, January 13–17 (January 17) “President Trump and those of us in his national security team are re-establishing deterrence – real deterrence ‒ against the Islamic Republic. In strategic terms, deterrence simply means persuading the other party that the costs of a specific behavior exceed its benefits. It requires credibility; ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 17 January, 2020 | Topics: Key Documents, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran, Iran Policy
This Week in Iran Policy (December 13) “As long as [Iran’s] malign behavior continues, so will our campaign of maximum pressure… these sanctions are aimed not at China, not at the Iranian people, but at the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran that is engaged in activity that poses threats around the world…We will ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 13 December, 2019 | Topics: Key Documents, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran Policy, Secretary Pompeo
This Week in Iran Policy, November 18-22 (November 22) “As Iranians take to the streets in protest, the Ayatollahs in Tehran continue to use violence and imprisonment to oppress their people. The United States’ message is clear: the American people stand with the people of Iran.” – Vice President Mike Pence, Twitter, November 20 ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 22 November, 2019 | Topics: Key Documents, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Iran Policy
