He noted that Iran "is already under a travel ban."
“But we are expanding existing travel restrictions to include any foreign national who has visited Iran in the past 14 days,” CNN quotes Pence.
Earlier it was reported that five deputies of the Iranian parliament were infected with COVID-19, the meetings were temporarily suspended.
According to the latest data from the Iranian Ministry of Health, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country reached 593 people, 43 of whom died.