The State Department approved visas for Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and essential staffers to participate in the UN General Assembly high-level meetings in New York next week. These authorizations allow the core delegation from the Iranian regime to attend the opening session in accordance with US host country obligations.

Travel restrictions and prohibitions on luxury goods purchases apply to all members of the visiting delegation. The group will be smaller than the delegation sent last year, and the approval arrives while the US and Iran remain at war in the Middle East.