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2nd LD: Iran decides against U.S. attending wrestling competitions

Xinhua, February 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

Iran's Foreign Ministry has decided against the participation of the U.S. men's freestyle wrestling team in the upcoming world cup competitions in the country, official IRNA news agency reported on Friday.

"The subject was discussed in a special committee and finally it decided against the travel of the U.S. wrestling team to Iran" to partake in the competitions, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi told IRNA.

The recent U.S. stances against Iran's citizens made the Foreign Ministry make such a decision, Qasemi was quoted as saying.

On Jan. 31, Iran said that it stopped granting visas to U.S. citizens in response to Washington's recent travel ban against citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran.

"We will not issue visa for Americans, but there will be exceptions for some whose cases will be referred to a committee which has been set up at the (Iranian) Foreign Ministry," Iran' Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump Trump issued an executive order last Friday to restrict immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries that he said are "compromised by terrorism."

Tehran would host Men's World Cup Wrestling Competitions 2017 on Feb. 17-18. Endit