The United States has placed maximum pressure on Iran by restricting their United Nations delegation from accessing wholesale club stores and luxury items.
“We will not allow the Iranian regime to allow its clerical elites to have a shopping spree in New York while the Iranian people endure poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and dire shortages of water and electricity,” said State Department spokesperson Thomas Pigott.
“The security of Americans is always our priority, and the United States will not allow the Iranian regime to use UNGA as an excuse to travel freely in New York to promote its terrorist agenda,” Pigott added, explaining that the move sends a clear message: “When the United States says it stands with the people of Iran, we mean it.”
According to a statement on the Federal Register, the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations and its members must obtain approval from the Department of State prior to “obtaining or otherwise retaining membership at any wholesale club store in the United States, to include but not limited to Costco, Sam’s Club, or BJ’s Wholesale Club” and “acquiring items from such wholesale club stores through any means.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to the United Nations in New York City to “advance American values, including peace, sovereignty, and liberty,” the department said. Rubio will use the “High-Level Week as an opportunity to discuss the need for the UN to get back to basics, reorienting the organization to its origins as an effective tool for advancing peace, not a bloated bureaucracy that compromises national sovereignty and pushes destructive ideologies like DEI.”
