The United States has denied visas to about 20 Iranian government officials hoping to attend next week's United Nations General Assembly. Iran's Fars news agency said those denied visa include two ministers but it did not name them. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a regular at the assembly since he took office in 2005, will give his final speech at the assembly on Wednesday. Fars said, however, of the 160-or-so visas requested by the Iranian delegation two months ago, about 20 were turned down. It gave no reason, but many Iranian officials are subject to travel bans under sanctions related to Iran's nuclear programme. In Washington, the U.S. State Department had no immediate comment on the matter.