"They dread that somebody goes to the US and uncovers substances," Zarif said from Tehran on Tuesday.
His remarks come as Iran plans to burry the remaining parts of general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed on Friday in Baghdad, alongside Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
Under the 1947 UN "base camp understanding," the US is commonly required to enable access to the UN for remote ambassadors. However, Washington says it can deny visas for "security, fear-based oppression, and international strategy" reasons.
The US State Department declined to remark right away.
UN representative Stephane Dujarric declined to remark on the clear visa forswearing.
Zarif needed to go to a gathering of the Security Council on Thursday on the point of maintaining the UN Charter. The gathering and Zarif's movement had been arranged before the acceleration in pressures among Washington and Tehran.
The Security Council meeting would have given Zarif a worldwide spotlight to openly censure the US for murdering Soleimani.
Iran's representative to the UN, Majid Takht Ravanchi, has portrayed the slaughtering of Soleimani as "a conspicuous case of state fear-mongering and, as a criminal demonstration, comprises a gross infringement of the crucial standards of global law, including, specifically ... the Charter of the United Nations."
Zarif last ventured out to New York in September for the yearly assembling of world pioneers at the UN - after the US authorized him for actualizing "the crazy plan of Iran's Supreme Leader."
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