US Diplomats Head Back to Mideast Embassies
US Diplomats Head Back to Mideast Embassies
The News
The Trump administration is preparing to send Foreign Service officers back to US embassies across the Middle East after they were evacuated during the war with Iran, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
The return could begin as early as this week, according to an internal document described by the Times.
Emergency measures at US missions in the region are also being scaled back, the report said — a signal, the Times wrote, that Washington does not anticipate a renewal of full-scale conflict with Iran.
Timeline
During the war with Iran, the United States evacuated Foreign Service officers from posts across the Middle East and put its missions in the region under emergency measures.
The New York Times reports, citing an internal document, that the administration is preparing to return evacuated diplomats to their posts and to scale back the emergency footing at US missions.
Reuters carries the Times report in English, Spanish and Italian; The Jerusalem Post reports that the return of officers could begin as early as this week.
Reactions
The Times framed the move as a read on the risk level: officials returning staff suggests Washington does not expect the fighting with Iran to resume at full scale.
The Jerusalem Post described the same document as covering both the return of Foreign Service officers and the rollback of emergency measures at American missions across the region.
No on-the-record comment from the State Department or the White House appears in the reports published Tuesday.
What's Next
Evacuated officers could begin heading back to their posts as early as this week, according to the reporting.
How far the emergency measures at US missions are rolled back — and at which embassies — has not been detailed publicly.
More
The plan is known so far only through an internal document described by The New York Times and picked up by Reuters and the Jerusalem Post. The administration has not published the document or confirmed a timetable.
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