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State Department Presser Beginning Shortly

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US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price is shortly due to deliver a press conference from the Department of State.

  • Livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/statedept/
  • The presser comes in the wake of a White House preview of an executive order due to be signed by President Biden tomorrow entitled Bolstering Efforts to Bring Hostages and Wrongfully Detained U.S. Nationals Home.
  • According to the White House, the executive order will "provide new and expanded tools to help bring our citizens home and impose costs on the culprits."
  • News of the executive order was released as the a trilateral summit was taking place between Turkish President Recep Erdogan, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The timing may be somewhat symbolic as both Iran and Russia have been accused of illegally detaining US nationals.

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