Story highlights Iran denies visas to Team USA Wrestling to attend Freestyle World Cup

The move comes after Iran announced "reciprocal measures" to Trump's travel ban

(CNN) The US wrestling team won't be able to compete in this month's Freestyle World Cup in Iran because visas were denied to its members, the Iranian semiofficial Tasnim News Agency said Friday.

Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said a special committee reviewed the case Friday and "eventually the visit by the USA freestyle wrestling team was opposed," according to the agency.

Ghasemi said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was "obliged inevitably to oppose the US wrestling team's travel to Iran" in the wake of Trump's policies, according to the semiofficial FARS news agency.

The US wrestling team has been in Iran for tournaments 15 times since the Iranian Revolution, and the sport's governing body said Monday it planned to send a delegation to the Freestyle World Cup on February 16-17 in Kermanshah, Iran.

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