Tehran, Iran ? Iran lifted its ban on CNN on Tuesday, a day after the government barred the U.S. network from the country because of its mistranslation of nuclear comments by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state television reported.

Ahmadinejad ordered the reversal “due to the expression of an apology” from CNN over the mistranslation, the state-run TV broadcast said.

Iran imposed the ban after CNN misquoted the president as speaking of developing “nuclear weapons” when he actually referred to “nuclear technology.” CNN admitted the mistake in a broadcast.

The Jomhuri-e-Eslami newspaper said Tuesday that CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour was a “CIA and Mossad agent with a bad record” who should be barred from Iran.

In its apology, the Atlanta-based CNN said Monday it had “quoted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying that Iran has the right to build nuclear weapons. … CNN has clarified what the Iranian president said and apologized here on the air to the Iranians directly,” the newscaster said.