The United States has introduced strict restrictions on the Iranian delegation participating in the United Nations General Assembly in New York, limiting their movement and prohibiting access to wholesale centers and luxurious products.
The Deputy Spokesperson of the American State Department of Tommy Pigott stated that these measures “maximize the pressure” on the Iranian religious government, which he was enjoying luxury while the citizens of Iran suffer poverty, and electricity, and failed infrastructure.
World leaders gather each year in New York at the session of the UN General Assembly, whose 80. The session begins this Tuesday.
Iranian authorities have been facing economic challenges for a long time, who caused many years of mid and lower class protests across the country, dissatisfied with poverty growth, international sanctions, corruption and bad governance.
Although Iran openly does not trust the United States, and especially the President Donald Trump, the growing dissatisfaction in the country stated Tehran to, behind the scenes, more hardens the diplomatic solution to the west of his nuclear program.
Pigott stated that the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the movement of the Iranian delegation to restrict exclusively on the relations between their hotel and the United Nations Headquarters, only for the purpose of official activities.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has not commented on new restrictions.
(Vijesti.ba)
