The Iranian Foreign Minister has said that he is only permitted to enter three buildings while in New York to attend a UN meeting.

Iran Press/Iran News: “My interview with @LesterHoltNBC of @NBCNightlyNews in NY. We sat down on July 15 in Iran's UN ambassador’s residence— one of the three buildings I’m permitted to set foot in while in the US conducting official UN business,” the top Iranian diplomat Mohmmad Javad Zarif twitted while staying in the American city of New York to attend the annual meeting of the high-ranking officials of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, reported Iran Press.

 

The US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin had announced on June 24 that Zarif would be sanctioned as part of the ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran later that week.

OnJune 15, the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in New York on Sunday to attend the meeting of social-economic council of the UN.203

 

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