Accounts conflict Whether U.S. authorities ordered the Iranian delegation to leave New York and when it departed
U.S. officials said Rubio ordered the delegation to leave immediately and placed its departure early Tuesday; U.S. authorities also said delegation members had been expelled.
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United States · our summary of RIA Novosti
Iran’s U.N. mission said the delegation left Monday evening on a prearranged schedule, and Araghchi said it traveled under an approved itinerary rather than being expelled.
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Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister · our summary of RIA Novosti
As quoted in Russian, with a machine translation
“Утверждение американцев о том, что они выслали иранскую делегацию – не важно правда это или нет – действительно странно, так как мы прибыли (в США – ред.) и вернулись (в Иран…”
Machine translation: “The Americans’ claim that they expelled the Iranian delegation—whether it is true or not—is really strange, since we arrived (in the US—editor’s note) and returned (to…”
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