Portugal Closes Tehran Embassy Due to “Gravity of the Situation”

The closure is temporary, Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said.

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The closure is temporary, Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said.

Portugal is temporarily shutting its Tehran embassy because of the “gravity of the current situation,” Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said on Tuesday, June 17th.

“This closure will be temporary. There will be a fallback to another country where we have an embassy. And, as soon as possible, the embassy (in Tehran) will reopen,” Rangel told journalists in Lisbon.

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