Iran will ban Americans from entering the country in response to President Donald Trump’s “insulting” order restricting arrivals from Iran and six other Muslim states, the foreign ministry said Saturday. “The Islamic Republic of Iran... has decided to respond in kind after the insulting decision of the United States concerning Iranian nationals”, the ministry said in a statement carried by state television. Iran’s foreign ministry called the decision “illegal, illogical and contrary to international rules”. It said its own ban on US nationals would continue until the American measure was lifted. Travel agents in Tehran said that foreign airlines had begun barring Iranians from US-bound flights.

Source: Hindustan Times January 28, 2017 17:20 UTC