TEHRAN: The chairman of Iran National Development Fund has called on President Masoud Pezeshkian to resume US consular services at the building of former American embassy in Tehran.
Mehdi Ghazanfari, appointed by former president Ebrahim Raisi, in a post on X said, “It would be good, at the very least, to restore consular services at the US Embassy in Tehran out of respect for the Iranian people, so that the many Iranians there can travel more easily.”
“Now that all the pillars of the regime are supporting you and your government, please, if you see fit, implement a few tasks that have been left unfinished for many years. It might be better to do these before the honeymoon period ends.”
According to Iran International news channel, in 1979, a few months after the Iranian Revolution, students attacked the US embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage for 444 days. They were released in January 1981. US and Iran do not have diplomatic ties for the past 44 years.
The National Development Fund (NDF) is Iran’s sovereign fund and Ghazanfari is considered to be a high-level government official.
