Tag: U.S. State Department
‘Sensitive’ State Dept. document runs in Tehran paper, as Foggy Bottom rebuffs Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders have expressed frustration that the U.S. State Department has been stonewalling Congress about details of the June suspension of Robert Malley as special envoy to Iran.
Now a newspaper with close ties...
House reps ‘frustrated’ with lack of transparency over Malley suspension
Robert Malley, the special representative for Iran suspended by U.S. State Department amid what is said to be an FBI investigation for mishandling classified documents, has landed a new gig in New Haven, Conn., while he...
US State Department to brief lawmakers on suspension of Iran envoy Malley
Details remain sketchy, but Robert Malley confirmed at the beginning of the month that the U.S. State Department had suspended him from his role as special envoy for Iran.
Malley, who as an undergraduate penned a 1980 Yale...
US State Department: Judicial reform will not affect Israel aid
The U.S. State Department stressed on Tuesday that the Biden Administration has no intention to slash aid to Israel following the passing into law by Israel's coalition of key judicial reform legislation.
Responding to a leading question by Said...
State Department rejects analogy of Russian war, Israeli ‘occupation’
Matthew Miller, U.S. State Department spokesman, began Foggy Bottom's press briefing on July 10 by noting it was the 500th day of Russia's war on Ukraine.
"For 500 days, the Ukrainian people have endured the...
Ariel University decries ‘racist and BDS-like’ State Department
A U.S. State Department decision to cease scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli entities over the 1949 armistice line, commonly known as the Green Line, is racist and smacks of a BDS-like double standard,...
Israel a ‘serial bomber of civilian places,’ reporter says at State Department briefing
Said Arikat, Washington bureau chief of Al-Quds, has a long history of slandering Israel at U.S. State Department press briefings. On June 15, he began by posing a question about Amnesty International calling for the International Criminal Court to...
US calls Roger Waters’s Berlin show antisemitic
The United States has condemned as antisemitic a recent concert in Berlin by Pink Floyd musician and co-founder Roger Waters.
The May 17 performance “contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized...
John Kerry to visit Jerusalem as part of Mideast working trip
John Kerry, U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, will visit Jerusalem as part of a May 31 to June 7 trip that will also take him to Amman, Dubai and Oslo, the U.S. State...
US State Department designates five al-Shabaab leaders as terrorists
Maxamed Siidow, Cali Yare, Maxamed Dauud Gabaane, Suleiman Cabdi Daoud and Mohamed Omar Mohamed—all influential leaders of al-Shabaab, a terror group based in Somalia—have now been labeled Designated Global Terrorists under Executive Order (E.O.) 13224 by...