WorldIn today's News More than a 1,000 people arrested for dumping garbage illegallyTehran (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday that the new US ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim countries was "truly shameful". "US now bans Iranian grandmothers from seeing their grandchildren, in a truly shameful exhibition of blind hostility to all Iranians," Zarif tweeted. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has denounced the new US ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim countries (AFP Photo/John MACDOUGALL)With more than one million people of Iranian origin living in the US, the legal battle over President Donald Trump's proposed ban has created months of anxiety for families. Trump says the 90-day ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen -- and a 120-day ban for refugees -- is necessary to block terrorists from entering the country. wrote Elham Khatami, of the Washington-based National Iranian American Council -- one of many who tweeted pictures of their grandparents.

Source: Sunday Times June 30, 2017 06:11 UTC