The U.S. won't issue Iran's foreign minister a visa to travel to the United Nations later this week, contending there was not enough time to process the request.
Mohammed Javad Zarif told "CBS This Morning" on Tuesday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo informed the UN secretary general, who in turn relayed to Zarif, that "they didn't have time to review my request."
Zarif's trip would have been an opportunity for him to discuss the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general in Baghdad last week. That targeted killing has escalated tensions with Iran, which has vowed to retaliate. Pompeo plans to speak to reporters Tuesday morning. At the White House Tuesday, national security adviser Robert O'Brien told "Fox & Friends," "I don't think Secretary Pompeo thought that this was the right time for Mr. Zarif to come to the United States."
Zarif had applied for the visa in order to speak to a UN Security Council session Thursday about the importance of upholding the UN charter.
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