Tehran: All US nationals are to be fingerprinted upon arrival in Iran, according to a bill approved by the Iranian Parliament on Sunday. The bill was initially proposed on October 1 in retaliation for similar measures applied to Iranians entering the US.
But Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected the proposal, arguing that Iran had no problems with the American people but the US administration, adding that although US immigration authorities took a humiliating approach towards Iranians, Tehran should not do the same, the news network Khabar reported.
The bill has to be approved by the constitutional watchdog Guardian Council before becoming a law.
Diplomatic relations between Iran and the US were broken off after the 444-day occupation of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 by radical Iranian students. Since then the two sides have viewed each other with hostility.
Washington has said that Tehran is part of an "axis of evil," and a supporter of terrorism and has accused Iran of attempting to develop nuclear weapons.
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