US Grants Iran Visas for UN, Bars Palestinian President

Pro-Trump narrative

Hosting the U.N. means honoring the obligation to admit a core delegation, and that is exactly what happened here. The government had to sanction PLO and Palestinian Authority members as a result of ongoing failures to reform or address the proliferation of terrorist activities, but the administration had no choice but to include Iranian officials. Tight travel restrictions and a ban on luxury goods and wholesale club memberships keep regime officials from turning a high-level week into a shopping trip.