64.6 F
San Diego
Friday, May 17, 2024
Home Tags Brian Hook

Tag: Brian Hook

Elliott Abrams. Credit: U.S. State Department Official Photo.

Elliott Abrams tapped as US Iran envoy after Hook resigns

0
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday that Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook has resigned. He is being replaced by Elliott Abrams, a veteran foreign-policy expert and policy hawk who currently...
Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France. Credit: Massimiliano Mariani via Wikimedia Commons.

Interpol rejects Iranian request for Trump arrest on murder charges

0
The International Criminal Police Organization Interpol has denied a request from Iran to issue an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 other unnamed officials whom Tehran claims were involved in the assassination of...
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook at the announcement of the creation of the Iran Action Group in the Press Briefing Room at the Department of State, Aug. 16, 2018. Credit: U.S. Department of State/Flickr.

US envoy blasts Iranian oil shipments to Venezuela, breaking sanctions

0
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook slammed Iran on Thursday for shipping oil to Venezuela. “We think that this is another regrettable example of the Iranian regime stealing the wealth of the Iranian people to...
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook announces U.S. sanctions against Iranian Brig. Gen. Hassan Shavapour on Jan. 17, 2020, at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jackson Richman/JNS.

US official says successor to Soleimani faces same fate if he kills Americans

0
U.S. special representative for Iran Brian Hook said the successor to slain Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, who now heads the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, would suffer the...