Iran refuses visas to congressmen
Issue 1017
- 17 Jun 2016
| 1 minute read
The three Republican members of the US House of Representatives – Mike Pompeo (Kansas), Lee Zeldin (New York) and Frank LoBiondo (New Jersey), who all voted against the nuclear agreement – have finally received a response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAF) to their requests to visit Iran, submitted in February. They had wanted to inspect nuclear sites, observe upcoming elections and meet with a then imprisoned US citizen. MAF finally responded in early June, in a letter sent via the State Department that called the congressmen’s applications “ironic”, “inappropriate” and a “publicity stunt.”
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