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The Former Embassy of Iran in Washington, D.C. was the Imperial State of Iran's diplomatic mission to the United States. Direct bilateral Iran–United States relations between the two governments were severed following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and the subsequent seizure of hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran .
In September 2023, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, requested to visit Washington to review the Iranian Interest Section following the United Nations General Assembly in New York. However, the U.S. denied the request, restricting him to the few blocks around the United Nations in New York.
This is a list of ambassadors of Iran to the United States. On April 7, 1980, the Iranian embassy in Washington, DC closed due to severed diplomatic relations. [ 1 ] Iran currently has no ambassador to the United States but simply a chief of the Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the United States at the Pakistani Embassy .
The Iranian interest section in Washington, D.C., in 2003 claimed to hold passport information for approximately 900,000 Iranians in the US. [43] [51] Today, the United States contains the highest number of Iranians outside of Iran.
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC; Persian: شورای ملی ایرانیان آمریکا) is a lobbying group widely viewed as the de facto "Iran Lobby" in Washington, D.C. due to its history of lobbying for stances on behalf of, and aligned with, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The project — opposed by Washington for what it says is a violation of sanctions imposed on Tehran over its nuclear program — launched in 2013 to supply Iranian natural gas to energy-starved ...
Launch date. 18 October 1994 (TV) 22 November 1979 (Radio) ... Its headquarters are in Washington D.C. ... Iran accused the U.S. of supporting terrorists by giving ...
Executive Order 12170 was issued by American president Jimmy Carter on November 14, 1979, ten days after the Iran hostage crisis had started. The executive order, empowered under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, ordered the freezing of all Iranian government assets held within the United States.