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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.
The embassy was the location of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in which members of the Iranian-Arab nationalist group the Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan seized the building for several days before being overrun by the SAS. [3] The embassy was severely damaged during the siege and did not re-open until 1993. [3]
This is a list of diplomatic missions of Iran. Iran has a substantial diplomatic network, reflecting its foreign affairs priorities within the Islamic and Non-Aligned world. In Washington, D.C. the Embassy of Pakistan looks after the interests of Iran in the United States.
The Iranian embassy was seized by the U.S. State Department in retaliation for Iran's seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. As a result, the Iranian Interests Section operated out of a small office on Wisconsin Avenue associated with the Pakistani Embassy between 1981 and 2015. [2] [3] It has since relocated to a larger office space on 23rd ...
Embassy Unknown [citation needed] Israel: Embassy: 1979 Closed after 1979 attack to Israeli Embassy in Tehran [35] [36] Morocco: Embassy 2018 [37] Peru: Embassy 1978 [32] Singapore: Embassy 2010 Somalia: Embassy 2016 Closed after 2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran [38] United States: Embassy: 1979 Closed after 1979 attack on ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The embassy of Azerbaijan in Tehran resumed its work Monday after more than a year of negotiations between the two countries to ease tensions, media reports said.
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.
Israel on Friday nervously awaited an attack by Iran or its proxies as warnings grew of retaliation for the killing last week of a senior officer in Iran's embassy in Damascus. The Israeli ...