A BBC journalist has been stopped from travelling to the US with her family because of her dual Iranian-British nationality. Rana Rahimpour, a presenter for the BBC’s Persian service, was halted from boarding a flight to New Jersey at Heathrow airport yesterday. She was told she could not travel to the US because of the new visa waiver rules that prevents those with dual nationalities of certain countries from entering the US on its 90-day visa-free program. @ranarahimpour My fully #British daughter can’t attend her #American cousin’s bday cos her mum was born in #Iran. pic.twitter.com/8Rt1aHLlTD — Rana Rahimpour (@ranarahimpour) January 19, 2016 The new law known as HR 158 is unfairly branding journalists, humanitarian aid workers, business executives, refugees and Iranian nationals as terrorist risks. RT reports: The new rules mean anyone who has traveled to a “terrorist haven” in the past five years can no longer enter the US on the tourism visa. The restrictions apply to Iran, Syria, Sudan, and Iraq. People from 38 countries, including 23 EU countries, who were previously able to visit the US without a visa, are now unable to do so if they have visited the blacklisted nations. Rahimpour was trying to [...]