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Families of Americans detained abroad hold out hope that Biden administration will return their loved ones By Margaret Brennan, Christina Ruffini, Camilla Schick Updated on: February 4, 2021 / 7:39 AM / CBS News Washington — A week into his new job, Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with family members of hostages or those wrongfully detained abroad and told them that their loved ones "are a top priority in our diplomatic engagements with both allies and adversa...

Jan. 31, 2021 Elliott Abrams was in his State Department office when the Jan. 6 insurrection broke out at the Capitol. Because the office was in a secure location without cell phone service, Abrams, then the Trump administration’s special representative on Iran, was not aware of what was happening. When he learned of the assault that Trump supporters were making against America’s democratic institutions, Abrams said in an interview this week, he was shaken to the core. “I share the view t...

Elliott Abrams, the former Iran envoy, still says Donald Trump was unfit to be president.

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read (Reuters) - Iran has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani and has asked Interpol for help, Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday, according to the Fars news agency. The United States and Interpol both dismissed the idea of acting on such a warrant. The United States killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, with a drone strike in Iraq on Jan. 3. Wash...

(Adds dropped word ‘dispute’ to first paragraph) WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - A breakthrough has been reached in Qatar’s three-year-old dispute with Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries and an agreement to end their rift is to be signed in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, a senior Trump administration official said. “We’ve had a breakthrough in the Gulf Cooperation Council rift,” said the official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. The development is the latest in a se...

Iran, China to Continue Fight Against Donald Trump, Officials as Private Citizens On 1/22/21 at 6:42 AM EST President Donald Trump may have left office, but the combative foreign policy that made him a reviled figure among Americas enemies looks set to stick with the president and top former administration officials. This week, China and Iran placed sanctions on Trump, and on Thursday Iranian state-aligned media even hinted that the country still intends to take personal revenge against the for...

While Iran's last-minute sanctions are largely symbolic due to its isolation, China's measures may have real impact given its global influence in business and trade

Iran Adds Trump, Pompeo, Mnuchin, Several Ex-Officials to Sanctions Lists © AP Photo / Alex Brandon Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/world/202101191081815984-iran-adds-trump-pompeo-mnuchin-several-ex-officials-to-sanctions-lists/ During Donald Trumps final weeks in the Oval Office, his administration has hit Iran with an avalanche of new restrictions, most recently against dozens of individuals and business entities, both local...

Iran blacklisted U.S. President Donald Trump and several current and former senior U.S. officials on Tuesday over what it called “terrorist and anti-human rights” acts, a move widely regarded as symbolic.

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