WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Iran's newly-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be denied a visa to enter the United States to address the United Nations next month.
The Financial Times reported Friday the Bush administration is considering the step as it investigates whether Ahmadinejad was involved in the 1979 U.S. embassy hostage crisis and the killing of an Iranian-Kurdish dissident leader in Vienna in 1989.
Iran has denied his involvement in either event, the report said.
A top Iranian official told the newspaper his new president planned to address the U.N. Millennium Summit and its annual General Assembly in September. His U.S. visa application was expected to be submitted this week.
"It is premature to comment until a request for a visa has been made," a U.S. State Department spokesman said.
