Shopping carts are lined up in front of a Costco store on February 25, 2021 in Inglewood, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images

The Trump administration is blocking Iranian diplomats from accessing the “wholesale club stores” like Costco and purchasing luxury goods while in the United States, State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said Monday.

Iranian officials visiting New York for the annual UN General Assembly are also restricted “to the areas strictly necessary to transit to and from the UN headquarters district to conduct their official UN business,” Pigott said in a statement Monday. The US government has put restrictions on the Iranian delegation’s movements in the past.

In a notice scheduled to be published in the Federal Register, the State Department said that Iranian

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