# Law and Order 2/19 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-and-order-2-19/486657 "2009-02-20T01:59:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-and-order-2-19/486657/1 "2009-02-20T01:59:31Z")
On Law and Order last night, a part of the episode was when the suspect fled into the Iranian Embassy in NYC and McCoy tried to get him out of there for trial. Now, I thought that the U.S. and Iran did not have diplomatic relations. There should not be an Iranian Embassy in NYC or anywhere else in the U.S., right? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-and-order-2-19/486657/2 "2009-02-20T02:13:37Z")
There definitely shouldn’t be an embassy in New York - the embassy should be in Washington D.C. I can imagine a trade mission or consulate, though, or some other building where Iranian diplmats who work at the U.N. can hang out. What bugged me more was the gloating “It _was_ a trick” bit. Basic intelligence rule - never let the enemy _know_ they’ve been fooled. That reduces your chance of fooling them again in future. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/law-and-order-2-19/486657/3 "2009-02-20T04:33:30Z")
It think it was probably supposed to be Iran’s mission to the UN. (I believe the caption said “mission” and not “consulate”).