JERUSALEM, Jan. 13 (JTA) — Iran will not receive an American congressman who has expressed an interest in visiting Tehran, an Iranian official was quoted as saying on Iran’s state-run radio. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) said last week that he wanted to go to Iran to see if Iran-U.S. relations could be improved. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied that his government had given Israeli rabbis permission to make contact with Iranian clerics. The comment came after Rabbi Menachem Froman of the West Bank settlement of Tekoa was quoted in the Israeli media as saying that the contacts have been going on for several months.
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