U.S. Grants Visa to Iranian Politician

WASHINGTON — State Department officials said that a visa has been granted to a leading Iranian politician, Ibrahim Yazdi, on humanitarian grounds, but that no direct contact was made with Administration officials.

Yazdi, a former Iranian foreign minister and a relative moderate who holds a seat in the Iranian Parliament, was granted the visa, according to the officials, so he could visit a daughter who has been under medical treatment in the United States.

Yazdi did not come to Washington, the officials said. The Reagan Administration has said there can be no high-level contact with the Iranian government because of its continuing support of terrorism and refusal to negotiate an end to the six-year-old war with Iraq.