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US bars Iran's diplomats from shopping at Costco without permission (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

The Trump administration has barred Iranian diplomats based in or visiting New York from shopping at wholesale club stores like Costco and purchasing luxury goods in the United States without specific permission from the State Department.

In notices to be published this week in the Federal Register, the department’s Office of Foreign Missions determined that diplomatic memberships in wholesale club stores as well as diplomats’ ability to buy items such as watches, furs, jewelry, handbags, wallets, perfumes, tobacco, alcohol and cars are a “benefit” requiring U.S. government approval.

Oh yeah this is incredibly stupid.

The loopholes are easy to find and this screams like the US just wants a bribe.