Tehran, December 10 (KCNA) -- Iranian lawmaker Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh told local Mehr news agency Wednesday that the launch of the virtual embassy is "a kind of public announcement to attract spies (from Iranians) to the U.S."

Referring to the U.S. launch of embassy on Tuesday, Falahatpisheh, who heads the Foreign Relations Committee of Iranian parliament, noted the objective behind the establishment of the U.S. virtual embassy is to put political pressures on Iran.

There aren't any virtual embassies in the international conventions on diplomatic relations and in particular the U.S. broke off its diplomatic relation with Iran so that the embassy is itself useless, he noted.