The Cable/Foreign Policy: Iran Won’t be Giving Visas to These Would-Be Republican TouristsIn early February, three weeks before Iran’s general elections, three hawkish Republican lawmakers sent an ironic letter to Iran’s supreme leader requesting travel visas to watch “Iranian democracy in action,” discuss Iran’s “continued work on weaponization,” and speak, “in an unmonitored and lengthy meeting,” with Americans jailed by Iran.
This week, after a pointedly long delay, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif finally told the GOP pranksters the obvious: they won’t be getting visas.
“Despite what you seem to presume, members of the U.S. Congress do not get to dictate the policies of other countries,” Zarif wrote. “This clearly applies to Iranian visa policies. Bear in mind that as members of the U.S. Congress you are not a global authority.”
The Iranian Foreign Ministry released the full text of his reply on Tuesday, one day after the Weekly Standard reported on its contents.
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