The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry slammed as �childish and naive� a move by a number of US senators to call on President Joe Biden to deny entry visa to Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi for participation in the UN General Assembly next month.



In remarks at a press conference on Sunday, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh answered a question about a letter to Biden from some US senators who have called on him to deny entry visas to Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi and other senior Iranian officials to attend the UN General Assembly in September.

�Such requests are childish, naive, and made within the framework of the anti-Iranian lobbies,� Khatibzadeh stated.

He said the US has certain duties as the host country for the UN headquarters and must fulfill its obligations regardless of its differences with other countries.

�The anti-Iranian lobbies take advantage of every allegation and have taken such measures in the past as well,� the spokesman noted.

In a letter on July 28, US senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Rick Scott (R-Florida), Marco Rubio (R-Florida), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) requested that the US president refuse to issue a visa to Iran�s next president and senior Iranian officials if they decide to travel to New York for the opening of the UN General Assembly.
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