The State Department said Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif could only visit a diplomat in hospital if Tehran released a detained American citizen.
Iran criticized the United States Saturday for what it called an"inhumane" decision to bar Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif from visiting one of its diplomats at a hospital in New York.
On Saturday Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the country's official IRNA news agency that the U.S. has taken humanitarian issues"hostage" for political causes.
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