The State Department responded to an appeal for Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to be allowed to call on a hospitalised colleague while visiting New York by stating that “Iran has wrongfully detained several U.S. citizens for years, to the pain of their families and friends they cannot freely visit… the travel request will be granted if Iran releases a U.S. citizen”.
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