All Iranian diplomats left the United Nations General Assembly held in New York as per schedule, Tehran’s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday, refuting US claims that the country’s UN representatives had been “kicked out”.
He posted the screenshot of a news article reporting on the supposed incident.
“All Iranian diplomats who attended UNGA, except one who departed earlier, left as scheduled,” Araghchi said in a post on X on Sunday. Shutting down the claims, Araghchi said the statement “oozes of desperation and defeat, and is inconsistent with UN host nation obligations. “Taking pride in fake diplomat “expulsion” is inappropriate for the head of any diplomatic corps,” Araghchi, who is also one of Iran’s top diplomats in its negotiations linked to the US war, said.
The US official said two Iranian diplomats did not follow a State Department order to leave the country, according to a report by Axios.
“Two more members of the Iranian delegation were found still in (New York) long after the United Nations General Assembly had passed. Recently, US President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s seven conditions to open the Strait of Hormuz – the key waterway that has remained a chokepoint during the conflict. The US claims and Iran’s subsequent counter is the latest flashpoint between the two countries, whose diplomatic talks to end the February 28 war have faltered time and again.
The US official, talking to news agency AFP, had said Secretary of State Marco Rubio “means business. They have now been kicked out of the US,” the official had said.
