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Iran protests US restrictions on its UN mission
“The extensive limits on the residence and movement of Iranian diplomats, tightened banking restrictions, and constraints affecting daily purchases represent pressures designed to disrupt the normal and lawful duties of Iran’s diplomatic personnel,” the ministry said in a statement, according to Tasnim.
The statement added that the US State Department’s decision to bar three members of Iran’s mission from continuing their work in New York was “a peak in lawlessness” and violations of host-country commitments, calling into question the United States’ fitness to host the world body.
UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq reacted to the US decision, saying Washington should have allowed accredited Iranian diplomats to carry out their work freely.
Haq affirmed the world body’s position that Washington, as host country, was obligated to permit the unrestricted movement of all UN-based diplomatic staff.
“Whenever countries have faced restrictions on their diplomatic personnel, they raise that with us, and then we remind the host country of its obligations under the Host Country Agreement to allow the free movement of diplomats accredited to the United Nations,” he said.