US official says Iran regime figures cannot use US visas while repressing people
Iranian-American Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar said on Thursday that Washington stood with the Iranian people and supported blocking Iranian regime members and their immediate relatives from benefiting from the US immigration system.
“The United States stands with the brave Iranian people,” Namdar said in a social media post. “We will not allow Iranian regime members and their immediate relatives to take advantage of America’s immigration and visa systems while brutally repressing their own people’s quest for basic rights.”
The US State Department said earlier on Thursday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had taken action this week to revoke the privilege of Iranian senior officials and their family members to be in the United States, adding that those who profit from what it called the Iranian regime’s brutal oppression were not welcome to benefit from the US immigration system.
