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.@realdonaldtrump's administration has provided few additional details of a newly announced entry ban on #Iran's senior officials and their family members, leaving unanswered questions about whom it will affect: my @VOAIran/@VOANews story bit.ly/2nzxAlR
@realDonaldTrump @VOAIran @VOANews In Thursday statement, US @SecPompeo offered one new detail about the #Iran entry ban proclamation, saying it is targeted at "designated" senior Iranian officials. That refers to officials who have been placed by @realDonaldTrump's admin on its Specially Designated Nationals list
@realDonaldTrump @VOAIran @VOANews @SecPompeo In NYC media appearance, US Special Rep for #Iran Brian Hook responded to Q about who's on the list of banned Iranian officials by noting Tehran makes regular personnel changes among its govt ministers & military leaders, including those of IRGC, designated by🇺🇸as an FTO in April
@realDonaldTrump @VOAIran @VOANews @SecPompeo .@FDD's @adesnik told @VOAIran/@VOANews there were several unanswered questions about @POTUS' #Iran entry ban, including "who exactly is considered a ‘senior’ official, and does ‘immediate family’ only mean siblings, parents and children."
@realDonaldTrump @VOAIran @VOANews @SecPompeo @FDD @adesnik @POTUS .@realDonaldTrump's proclamation of an entry ban on #Iran's senior officials and their immediate family didn't say anything about Iranians on student visas in the US. A @VOAIran request for comment about how the entry ban would affect such students went unanswered by @StateDept
@realDonaldTrump @VOAIran @VOANews @SecPompeo @FDD @adesnik @POTUS @StateDept October 2018 @WashTimes op-ed buy @FDD's @TzviKahn identified several children of senior #Iran'ian officials as being enrolled in US universities: Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani; Eissa Hashemi; siblings Ehsan Nobakht and Niloofar Nobakht; and Ali Fereydoun. @VOANews/@VOAIran
@realDonaldTrump @VOAIran @VOANews @SecPompeo @FDD @adesnik @POTUS @StateDept @WashTimes @TzviKahn .@FDD's @adesnik said children of senior #Iran'ian officials were unlikely to be US permanent residents if they've been here on student visas: "It's possible that US would renew their visas. But young Iranians who want to come here 2 get the best education are going 2 be affected
@realDonaldTrump @VOAIran @VOANews @SecPompeo @FDD @adesnik @POTUS @StateDept @WashTimes @TzviKahn .@NIACouncil's @jabdi 2 @VOAIran re:US entry ban on Iranian officials & family members: this seems 2 be a symbolic doubling down of failed maximum pressure policy which has only interfered w/efforts 2 free Americans,made war more likely & undermined human rights defenders in Iran
@realDonaldTrump @VOAIran @VOANews @SecPompeo @FDD @adesnik @POTUS @StateDept @WashTimes @TzviKahn @NIACouncil @jabdi .@OrgIAC tells @VOAIran🇺🇸entry ban on Iranian officials & family members is "necessary but long overdue"; says ban "mustn't be limited 2 families of regime officials. All Tehran agents operating under disguises eg as students, scholars & businesspeople must be exposed & expelled"
@realDonaldTrump @VOAIran @VOANews @SecPompeo @FDD @adesnik @POTUS @StateDept @WashTimes @TzviKahn @NIACouncil @jabdi @OrgIAC Robert Levinson's family tells @VOAIran it wasn't directly involved in campaign to lobby Trump admin to ban entry of Iranian officials & their family members, "but we welcome any actions that continue 2 send a message 2 #Iran that it must send our father & all Iran hostages home"
