Iran blames Israel for exclusion from US visa waiver

Iran claims that Israel is to blame for a recent US Congress decision that excludes Iranians and people who have visited Iran from the country’s visa waiver program.

According to a Reuters report, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a spokesman for the foreign ministry in Tehran, says that the American decision was enacted “under pressure from the Zionist lobby” and other “currents” opposed to the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

The decision, signed into law on Friday, is a security measure that was first introduced in the wake of terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.

It also applies to Syria, Iraq and Sudan.