US relaxes diktat on travel to Iran

8220;The secretary approved a new travel advisory with regard to Iran that reduces the standard 8230; From a warning against all citizens traveling to Iran to a recommendation that citizens defer travel,8221; the officials said.

The decision is certain to be read in Teheran as a carefully evolving diplomatic minute between the two countries, which have been bitter enemies without formal diplomatic relations since the Islamic revolution in 1979.

Theofficial said while Albright8217;s decision may have this effect, it was not made as a political gesture but to more precisely reflect changing Iranian attitudes towards the United States and Americans.