US Grants Visas for Iran’s President and Foreign Minister to Attend UN General Assembly

The visa approval is procedural, not diplomatic — Washington is honoring its host-country obligation while shrinking the delegation and imposing travel and shopping limits, a combination that keeps the UN channel open without conceding anything on the Strait of Hormuz or the nuclear file. The signal worth reading is what the restrictions say about US intent: engagement is being contained to the multilateral venue, and the smaller delegation curtails Iran's ability to conduct side diplomacy in New York. Whether any bilateral contact occurs on the margins, or whether Tehran reads the constraints as punitive, is the open question.