President Barack Obama's administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians in 2015, including family members of government officials, while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, a senior cleric and member of parliament claimed.
Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour made the allegations during an interview with the country's Etemad newspaper, cited by the country's Fars News agency, and reported by Fox News.
He claimed the citizenship status was conferred as a favor to senior Iranian officials linked to President Hassan Rouhani, and he further claimed the offer sparked a competition among Iranian officials over whose children would benefit from it.
Zolnour says the deal was made during negotiations for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was reached in July 2015.
President Donald Trump announced in May the U.S. would withdraw from the agreement.
'When Obama, during the negotiations about the JCPOA, decided to do a favor to these men, he granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians and some officials started a competition over whose children could be part of these 2,500 Iranians,' Zolnour said.
'If today these Iranians get deported from America, it will become clear who is complicit and sells the national interest like he is selling candies to America.'
The conservative Zolnour, who is in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's inner circle, estimated that between 30 and 60 of these recipients were studying in the U.S.
Cc:dailymail
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