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Washington Examiner: State Department: Iran declined second Trump administration meeting at UN
The State Department confirmed Tuesday that Iran declined a special high-level meeting with the Trump administration during the United Nations General Assembly.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert resisted reporters’ efforts to identify the specific Trump administration official who would have participated in the meeting. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had his own meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and other diplomats involved in the Iran nuclear deal talks. Iranian officials claimed Sunday that the regime declined to meet with President Trump himself.
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WNU Editor: This is a U.S. State Department screw-up. Someone I know in the UN told me that this is a miscommunication between U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley's office, and the State Department in Washington. It is well known that U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson would rather have a different ambassador at the UN than having Nikki Haley .... Rex Tillerson is reportedly no fan of US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley (Business Insider) .... so one has to wonder if this animosity caused this (along with the usual incompetence that one expects between government agencies). No one else is reporting this story .... so I can only assume that everyone wants to bury this story.
