- The United States approved visas for Iran’s core UN delegation ahead of next week’s General Assembly.
- President Masoud Pezeshkian and Abbas Araghchi may travel, but the delegation faces travel and luxury-goods restrictions.
- The approvals were confirmed on September seventeenth and eighteenth, twenty twenty-six under the nineteen forty-seven UN agreement.
The United States approved visas for Iran’s core delegation to the UN General Assembly in New York next week, clearing President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to travel. The move came with restrictions attached.
The department laid out the terms in a statement.
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“Consistent with our host country obligations, the core delegation from the Iranian regime will be able to attend UN General Assembly High Level Week,” a State Department spokesperson said. “The delegation will be under travel restrictions and will face prohibitions on the purchase of luxury and other goods per our policy. The delegation is smaller than last year.”
The statement was terse.
The approvals landed on September 17, 2026, and were confirmed again on September 18, 2026. The clock was already running.
Officials described the travelers as a core delegation, plus essential staff. Not a full mission.
Pezeshkian is slated to address the assembly on Wednesday.
Those limits rest on the 1947 UN Headquarters Agreement. The department can still deny visas for security, terrorism and foreign policy grounds.
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Earlier restrictions kept diplomats close to John F. Kennedy International Airport, Iran’s UN mission and the ambassador’s residence. The airport stayed off limits. Costco was on the list. Formal ties never followed.
The visit lands while the United States and Iran remain at war. Intermittent talks continue.
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