Overview
- The State Department upgraded its travel guidance to Level 4: Do Not Travel, urging all Americans to cancel trips to Iran due to mounting security threats
- A dedicated website at state.gov/do-not-travel-to-Iran centralizes warnings, guidance and real-time updates on detention and terrorism risks
- Iran’s policy of denying dual nationals consular access heightens vulnerability of Iranian-American travelers to arbitrary detention
- With the U.S. lacking an embassy in Tehran, Switzerland serves as the protecting power but cannot guarantee timely aid for detained citizens
- Former detainee Emad Shargi joined the announcement to share his five-year imprisonment and underscore the high stakes of wrongful arrest