Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
09-22-2012, 08:41 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49133902
updated 2 hours 42 minutes ago 2012-09-23T00:51:04
Print Font: +-DUBAI — The United States has denied visas to about 20 Iranian government officials hoping to attend next week's United Nations General Assembly, including two ministers, Iran's Fars news agency reported on Saturday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a regular at the assembly since he took office in 2005, will give his final speech there on Wednesday after addressing a meeting on the "rule of law" on Monday.
Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is shown speaking at the parliament in Tehran in March. But of the 160-or-so visas requested by the Iranian delegation two months ago, about 20 were turned down, Fars said.
It gave no reason, but many Iranian officials are subject to travel bans under sanctions related to Iran's nuclear program. In Washington, the U.S. State Department had no immediate comment on the matter.
Fars did not name the two ministers who were denied visas and said Ahmadinejad would be accompanied by his chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
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Likely those banned had tailored made suicide vests and our government found out about it..-:laugh:
Should ban them all IMHO..-Tyr
updated 2 hours 42 minutes ago 2012-09-23T00:51:04
Print Font: +-DUBAI — The United States has denied visas to about 20 Iranian government officials hoping to attend next week's United Nations General Assembly, including two ministers, Iran's Fars news agency reported on Saturday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a regular at the assembly since he took office in 2005, will give his final speech there on Wednesday after addressing a meeting on the "rule of law" on Monday.
Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is shown speaking at the parliament in Tehran in March. But of the 160-or-so visas requested by the Iranian delegation two months ago, about 20 were turned down, Fars said.
It gave no reason, but many Iranian officials are subject to travel bans under sanctions related to Iran's nuclear program. In Washington, the U.S. State Department had no immediate comment on the matter.
Fars did not name the two ministers who were denied visas and said Ahmadinejad would be accompanied by his chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
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Likely those banned had tailored made suicide vests and our government found out about it..-:laugh:
Should ban them all IMHO..-Tyr