Washington • President Donald Trump has named a career foreign service official from Utah to be the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
Matthew Tueller, who is currently America’s ambassador to Yemen, would be the United States' top diplomat in the war-ravaged country if confirmed by the Senate.
Tueller grew up in the foreign service – his father, Blaine Tueller, worked for the State Department across the world, and the younger Tueller made a pledge that he would be an ambassador by ago 50.
In an interview six years ago, Tueller likened being in the foreign service to watching an epic football game but notes that doesn’t do the experience justice.