Anonymous ID: c353d5 Jan. 6, 2020, 2:46 p.m. No.7734764   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4778 >>4829

Trump administration denies Iran's top diplomat visa to attend UN meeting: report

 

President Trump’s administration denied Iran’s foreign minister a visa to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting as tensions between the U.S. and Iran increase, Foreign Policy reported Monday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was reportedly denied access to the U.S. to address the Security Council at a Thursday meeting, three diplomatic sources told Foreign Policy.

The visa denial was in violation of the 1947 headquarters agreement mandating the U.S. to allow in foreign officials to conduct U.N. business, according to the publication.

 

Zarif was expected to address the world for the first time after the U.S. conducted a strike killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. 

The foreign minister reportedly filed for a visa a “few weeks ago” to discuss the importance of the U.N. Charter, a diplomatic source familiar with the matter told Foreign Policy. 

A Trump administration told U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres Monday that the U.S. would deny Zarif’s visa, a Washington-based diplomatic source told the news outlet.

The Hill reached out to the State Department and the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the U.N. for comment. The U.N. declined to comment. 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has limited access to the U.S. by Iranian officials, including Zarif, to prevent their ability to bring their message to the U.S. public.

Iran has vowed retaliation against the U.S. for the strike that killed Soleimani last week. President Trump responded by threatening to target 52 sites in Iran if the country retaliates, representing the 52 hostages taken in the 1979 crisis.

Iran also ended its commitment to the nuclear deal that Trump withdrew from in 2018 before imposing sanctions on the country.

 

https://thehill.com/policy/international/un-treaties/477009-trump-administration-denies-irans-top-diplomat-visa-to

Anonymous ID: c353d5 Jan. 6, 2020, 2:50 p.m. No.7734793   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4829

US Africa Command identifies soldier killed in al-Shabaab attack in Kenya

 

The Defense Department on Monday confirmed the death of the soldier killed over the weekend in a terror attack on a Kenyan airbase used by U.S. troops.

Spc. Henry Mayfield Jr., 23, of Evergreen Park, Ill., was killed on Sunday during a morning attack on a Kenya Defense Forces military base in Manda Bay, according to a Pentagon statement.

Two U.S. contractors were also killed and two Pentagon personnel were wounded in the attack claimed by the East Africa-based al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab.

 

No additional details of the incident were released as it is under investigation.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/477022-us-africa-command-identifies-soldier-killed-in-al-shabaab-attack-in

 

Spc. Henry Mayfield Jr., 23, of Evergreen Park, Ill