Iran’s foreign minister said Wednesday that recent move by the U.S. Congress to practice visa restrictions on people who have travelled to Iran may endanger the implementation of the nuclear deal between Iran and the world powers.
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region-Republican lawmakers in the United States have expressed outrage at Secretary of State John Kerry over reassures-iran-on-visa-restrictions-1131/”>a letter he sent to his Iranian counterpart in which he reassures him that the new visa bill will not harm business interests. The letter is authored by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), and Rep. Candice Miller (R-MI), the author of The Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, respectively.
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She looked very happy and excited to be out, and she had quite the drive back to New Jersey to see her kids. If they did have school today, one can imagine they stayed home to welcome their mother back home.
“Based on the letter to Foreign Minister Zarif, we are deeply concerned that the narrowly-intended use of the waiver authority will be ignored in favor of applying the waiver authority to those who have traveled to Iran for business purposes”, the congressmen wrote.
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Earlier, on December 19, the US President Barack Obama signed into law a Congress visa waiver bill that limits the possibility for many foreigners to travel visa-free to the US.
The Secretary of State was referring to the US visa waiver programme, where changes have been made including stricter guidelines on people travelling from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Sudan, all of whom can not enter the USA without a visa. Zarif complained over the weekend that the visa restrictions were a new sanction on Iran, which he believed would violate the nuclear deal.
Iran is impacted by this new law because it is a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism.
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“The clear objective of this proposed legislation is to enhance USA national security, not to affect trade and economic relations with Iran”, the official said. So all of our other sanctions authorities remain in place, they are unaffected by this agreement, and Iran only said, if you read what it says, that they would treat the imposition of new nuclear related sanctions as the grounds to cease performing.
Iran has reiterated that it would consider the visa restrictions to be a violation of the nuclear deal.
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All of the signatories to the House Republican letter opposed the nuclear deal, as did a notable number of Democrats.
