Federal authorities are moving to revoke the visas of two Iranian employees at their country’s U.N. mission after they were spotted videotaping the subway in Queens, The Post has learned.
Sources say the FBI and immigration officials want to yank the three-month visas of the two Iranians who arrived here Oct. 22 to work as security employees at their Manhattan mission.
“We don’t know their intent and we certainly take this quite seriously after 9/11,” said a State Department official.
The duo were spotted entering an elevated Woodside station at 1:30 a.m. Sunday and shooting video in various directions as they waited for a Manhattan-bound train.
They continued taping while riding the train until a transit cop, who had been tracking their suspicious actions, decided to question them.
An Iranian Mission spokesman, Morteva Ramandi, yesterday insisted the entire incident was a simple misunderstanding.