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Wed, 05/12/2010 - 12:31
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Iran grants visas to mothers of three detained U.S. citizens
TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) -- Iran has issued visas to the mothers of three U.S. citizens currently imprisoned in Iran for illegally entering the country.
The mothers of these three people have asked for permission to visit their children in Iran, and in a humanitarian act, the Islamic Republic decided to grant them visas, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in an interview broadcast live on national television on Monday.
Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, were detained on July 31, 2009 in western Iran after illegally crossing Iran’s border.
On Monday, after hearing the news, the families of the three U.S. citizens expressed hope that they would soon be able to travel to Iran to see their children.
“We have not received official confirmation that this is the case, but we would obviously be delighted if it is true and are ready to travel as soon as our visas are issued,” they said in a joint statement, AFP reported on Tuesday.
On the abduction of Iranian citizen Shahram Amiri, the foreign minister said Saudi Arabia and the United States were behind the act.
Amiri, a researcher at Malek Ashtar University, went missing during an umrah pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June 2009, and Iran says he was kidnapped by agents of the United States.
Commenting on his dinner meeting with representatives of the United Nations Security Council, which was held last Thursday at the residence of the Iranian ambassador to the UN in Manhattan, Mottaki said Iran’s nuclear program was one of the important issues discussed at the gathering.
“I told them that implementing the proposed nuclear fuel deal would be a trust-building measure, and ‘your acceptance of it would send a message that you have accepted Iran’s (uranium) enrichment’” activities, Mottaki said.
And as the ambassadors and envoys who attended the meeting have also stated, there was no mention of imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program at the meeting, he added.
“Iran’s nuclear dossier is now closed, and according to various reports, there has been no diversion” in Iran’s nuclear program, he stated.
The Iranian foreign minister also dismissed the claims of certain Western officials, who say Iran has become an isolated state, pointing out that even the United States sent a representative to the New York dinner meeting, which was held on the sidelines of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
The mothers of these three people have asked for permission to visit their children in Iran, and in a humanitarian act, the Islamic Republic decided to grant them visas, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in an interview broadcast live on national television on Monday.
Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, were detained on July 31, 2009 in western Iran after illegally crossing Iran’s border.
On Monday, after hearing the news, the families of the three U.S. citizens expressed hope that they would soon be able to travel to Iran to see their children.
“We have not received official confirmation that this is the case, but we would obviously be delighted if it is true and are ready to travel as soon as our visas are issued,” they said in a joint statement, AFP reported on Tuesday.
On the abduction of Iranian citizen Shahram Amiri, the foreign minister said Saudi Arabia and the United States were behind the act.
Amiri, a researcher at Malek Ashtar University, went missing during an umrah pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June 2009, and Iran says he was kidnapped by agents of the United States.
Commenting on his dinner meeting with representatives of the United Nations Security Council, which was held last Thursday at the residence of the Iranian ambassador to the UN in Manhattan, Mottaki said Iran’s nuclear program was one of the important issues discussed at the gathering.
“I told them that implementing the proposed nuclear fuel deal would be a trust-building measure, and ‘your acceptance of it would send a message that you have accepted Iran’s (uranium) enrichment’” activities, Mottaki said.
And as the ambassadors and envoys who attended the meeting have also stated, there was no mention of imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program at the meeting, he added.
“Iran’s nuclear dossier is now closed, and according to various reports, there has been no diversion” in Iran’s nuclear program, he stated.
The Iranian foreign minister also dismissed the claims of certain Western officials, who say Iran has become an isolated state, pointing out that even the United States sent a representative to the New York dinner meeting, which was held on the sidelines of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
