Laura Rozen
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Reporting on foreign policy. Current: Diplomatic Substack, Just Security ed bd. Al-Monitor Politico Foreign Policy alum. lkrozen threads, lkrozen.bsky, at gmail
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The ordered departure of non essential personnel from the US embassy in Riyadh is 100% about the Houthi threat, not any impending planned US escalation with Iran, a source familiar says.
Believe after being in a meeting with Iranian officials yesterday that this is what they expect too, and it is all sort of baked in to each other’s positions.
🧵Iran FM Araghchi said the Iranians had proposed a seven day plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz via mediators, with elements similar to the Islamabad MOU, that could go into effect the day after the US would accept it.
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That is a lie. The Iranians had been meeting with Kushner & Witkoff in Geneva in February and scheduled technical talks for the next week in Vienna when Trump and Israel started bombing.
