TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's intelligence minister is defending his agents' handling of a visit by a gay Utah state senator after hard-liners alleged it represented a security breach. Mahmoud Alavi made the comments on Tuesday in an open session of Iran's parliament. Alavi says Sen. Jim Dabakis was under "full surveillance" during his six-day visit ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Jim Dabakis, a member of the Utah State Senate who visited Iran recently was kept under surveillance by the Intelligence forces during his trip, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alawi told Iranian lawmakers. Speaking to Tasnim, a lawmaker quoted Alawi as saying in a parliamentary session on Tuesday that the Intelligence Ministry ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry says a Utah state senator who traveled to Iran in May did not clarify his job as senator in his visa application. Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi told reporters Monday that a visit by Sen. Jim Dabakis was technically legal, but that he did not make his government position clear in his application and ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker expressed his disapproval of a recent secret visit to Iran by a Democratic member of the Utah State Senate, saying the intelligence minister will be asked for an explanation for such a trip that is part of a Western plot for making inroads into Iran. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Sunday, Mohammad Javad ...