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FM: US now bans Iranian grandmothers from seeing their grandchildren

Zarif made the remarks in a message released on his twitter account.

Zarif said also on June 27 that Washington’s move to exert bans on Muslims and prevent them from entering the US will not help that country to overcome its problems or become a safer place.

“A bigoted ban on Muslims will not keep US safer. Instead of policies empowering extremists, US should join the real fight against them,” Zarif wrote on his Twitter page on Tuesday.

According to dispatches, US President Donald Trump’s travel ban took effect at 8 p.m. ET Thursday.

The new rules tighten visa policies affecting citizens from six majority Muslim nations: Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen. People from those countries who need new visas will now have to prove a close family relationship or an existing relationship with an entity like a school or business in the United States.

Citizens of those countries who already have visas will be allowed into the US as usual.

In December 2015, after a deadly militant attack in Paris claimed by the ISIL group, then-candidate Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”.

When Trump signed a 27 January executive order banning the entry of citizens from Yemen, Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan and Libya, including permanent US residents, it was seen as an implementation of his campaign promise.

But when challenged in courts on grounds of religious discrimination, the administration denied that the executive order is faith-based.

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