[RFE/RL] Iran says changes to the American visa-waiver program contradict the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.Washington recently tightened the security requirements of its visa-waiver program, which allows citizens of 38 nations to travel to the U.S. without visas. Now, people from those nations who have traveled to Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Sudan in the past five years require visas to enter the United States.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said that the nuclear deal bars policies intended to adversely affect normalization of trade and economic relations with Iran. He said the new visa requirement would negatively affect economic, cultural, scientific, and tourism relations with Iran.