Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif has been denied a visa to enter the U.S. just days before he was scheduled to attend a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York.
Travel limitations on Iranian officials doing business at the United Nations were strengthened in 2019, only allowing them access to three areas, including the six blocks around the U.N. Headquarters, the residence of the Iranian ambassador and the Iranian embassy.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has been denied entry into the U.S. days before he was scheduled to attend an Security Council meeting at the United Nations, according to reports.Zarif has faced travel restrictions while visiting the U.S. in the past. As the United Nations General Assembly was holding its yearly meeting in September 2019, Zarif was denied permission to visit a friend convalescing in a nearby New York hospital.
"Foreign Minister Zarif would like to visit a colleague who is in the hospital receiving world class care," said a U.S. administration official at the time."Iran has wrongfully detained several US citizens for years, to the pain of their families and friends they cannot freely visit. We have relayed to the Iranian mission that the travel request will be granted if Iran releases a US citizen.
The Trump administration almost disallowed the entire Iranian delegation from attending that meeting, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying at the time that Iran's connection to rocket strikes on two Saudi Arabian oilfields in September 2019"violated the U.N. Charter."
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