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The U.S. State Department has declined offers from benched State Department officials to help with Iran war-related evacuation efforts, according to the State Department’s union and an email seen by Foreign Policy.

Around 250 diplomats were laid off under a so-called reduction-in-force (RIF) order last year but have not yet officially separated from the department and are still on the payroll, John Dinkelman, president of the American Foreign Service Association, told Foreign Policy.

The U.S. State Department has declined offers from benched State Department officials to help with Iran war-related evacuation efforts, according to the State Department’s union and an email seen by Foreign Policy.

Around 250 diplomats were laid off under a so-called reduction-in-force (RIF) order last year but have not yet officially separated from the department and are still on the payroll, John Dinkelman, president of the American Foreign Service Association, told Foreign Policy.

A State Department officer who fell under the RIF and volunteered to return to help confirmed that they were still on the payroll, as did a foreign service officer close to the union effort to challenge the RIF. They were........

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