Under the legislation, which was signed into law as part of the omnibus spending bill, nationals of Europe or any of the thirty-eight Visa Waiver Program countries will be unable to visit the USA under the program if they are dual nationals of Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria, or if they traveled to these countries since March 2011.
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In a letter to Zarif, Kerry said: “I am also confident that the recent changes in visa requirements passed in Congress, which the Administration has the authority to waive, will not in any way prevent us from meeting our [nuclear deal] commitments, and that we will implement them so as not to interfere with legitimate business interests of Iran”.
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Citizens of 38 countries do not need to apply for a visa before traveling to the U.S., but instead must fill out an online form called an ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Administration). The new measures signed into law by President Obama Friday of last week would require any person who has traveled to countries of concern within the last five years to obtain a visa from a USA consulate or embassy before traveling to the United States. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2015 CBS Broadcasting Inc.
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Tehran has vociferously criticized the new measure, and have threatened it could have wide-reaching implications for July’s hard-won nuclear deal, which will see Iran curb nuclear activity in return for sanctions relief. “The problem is with Iranian actions, not the new visa waiver law”.
If the US clamp restrictions on the worldwide economic activists, who have been to Iran, to travel to the United States, “this would be the violation of the terms of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)”, Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a joint press conference with his visiting counterpart from Mongolia.
All of the signatories to the House Republican letter opposed the nuclear deal, as did a notable number of Democrats.
But at the same time that Congress has global support in its attempt to undermine this strategy, it also faces worldwide opposition from other parties that are highly – and often increasingly – interested in facilitating rapprochement and improved trade relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Responding to a comment by Zarif calling the new laws “absurd” and questioning whether “anybody in the West [has] been targeted by any Iranian nation”, Pompeo included a partial list of Iranian-sponsored terror attacks that have killed Americans.
Given the rigid stance taken by Republicans, who uniformly opposed the nuclear deal, Iranian leaders as well as some Iranian American activists have questioned whether the restrictions on travel to Iran were a quiet way for them to sabotage the nuclear deal.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Kerry was proposing a “blanket” waiver to accommodate Iran.
