Islam Times - Iran Warns Citizens Against Traveling to the United States

Islam Times - On Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran warned Iranian nationals, especially elites and scholars, against traveling to America to participate in scientific conferences, even if invited, where they may be put under arbitrary arrest under “cruel” regulations against Iran.

The ministry cited “America’s cruel and one-sided laws toward Iranians, especially Iranian elites, and arbitrary and lengthy detention in completely inhuman conditions” as reasons for the travel advisory.

The advisory came a few days after Iranian stem cell scientist Masoud Soleimani was released after spending over a year in US detention without any formal charges and American graduate student, Xiyue Wang, detained for three years on spying charges in Iran, was freed in return.

Soleimani, 49, left Iran in October 2018, but was arrested upon arrival in Chicago and transferred to prison in Atlanta, Georgia.

Prosecutors in Atlanta had accused him and two of his former students of conspiring and attempting to export vials of human growth hormone from the US to Iran without authorization, in violation of US sanctions.