What are embassies and what are their purpose?
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It’s also like the “official” phone number of the embassy’s country.
You can imagine Iran or Russia invading the embassy building in their own country, and holding the ambassador hostage, so…that embassy gets closed down.
Fine…then the leader of Iran, or it’s “speaker of the house” of their congress decides they want to call the USA and negotiate about something to avoid a military attack, or a missile being lobbed into their biggest Army base. What number do you call?
Anyone can call the white house secretary in charge of incoming phone calls, but they might not speak Farsi, or mandarin, or Indonesian, or whatever. The Embassy speaks your language. plus, how does the white house know it isn’t a crank call?
Each culture has its own set of protocols, and when negotiating a trade deal about oil for wheat, or titanium for weapons, or cobalt for corn…you have to be careful about accidentally insulting the other party. The US ambassador to a given country should be educated about the best way to communicate their precise stance on any issue, without any misunderstandings.
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