The United States expelled Iran’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations in December over national security concerns, Axios reported citing informed sources.
The diplomat, Saadat Aghajani, was asked in early December to leave the country after the U.S. State Department sent a formal notice to Iran’s UN mission in New York.
The request was made under “section 13 procedures,” an internal mechanism used to arrange a diplomat’s departure without formally declaring them persona non grata.
Such procedures are typically used in cases involving national security concerns or activities deemed inconsistent with diplomatic status, though no specific allegations against Aghajani were made public.
