Iran Dismisses Trump's New Travel Ban Order

Rasa - Iran on Tuesday underlined disorganization in US internal and foreign policies, and rejected as shaky Donald Trump's new travel order ban against the nationals of 6 Muslim states.

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Date: 07 March 2017 - 23:48

RNA - "The US president has had no experience in the internal and foreign policy fields and we are witnessing turmoil in the US internal and foreign policies," Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi said.

Noting that Trump's endorsement of an executive order on Monday blocking citizens of six predominantly Muslim countries, including Iran, from entering the United States shows that he and his team have not studied the foreign policy issues thoroughly, he said, "We reject the new executive order and (believe that) its bases are shaky."

Takht Ravanchi underscored that Iran's latest decision in reaction to the previous US travel ban order is still in place.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned early February that his country had stopped granting entry visas to the Americans in retaliation for the Donald Trump Administration's travel ban against citizens of seven Muslim countries, including Iran.

"We will not issue visa for the Americans, but there will be exceptions whose cases will be referred to a committee which has been set up at the foreign ministry to this end," Zarif told reporters in Tehran.

The Iranian foreign ministry announced setting up a committee to study and find proper solutions to the problems of the country's expatriates who have been banned from entering the US after Donald Trump's executive order.

"The committee has started work and we hope that it can find proper solutions to the new situation until further notice," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi told reporters in Tehran last month.

He explained that the committee has been able to prepare certain solutions and instructions and communicate them with all Iranian embassies across the world to help and honor the country's expatriates, specially those who are facing problems in the US.

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