Three American congressmen, all staunchly opposed to the Iran nuclear deal, have been denied their bid to visit Tehran to inspect the country’s nuclear sites, a job that is typically reserved for individuals with expertise in the area.
Republican Reps. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey, Mike Pompeo of Kansas and Lee Zeldin of New York had requested the visas at Iran’s interest section of the Pakistani Embassy in Washington in February. The United States cut off diplomatic ties with Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution when Iranian students stormed the US Embassy and took more than 50 Americans hostage for 444 days.
