Iranians at Stanford face hurdles: Students confront Visa delays, visits from FBI
Stanford Daily
28-May-2008 (7 comments)

The following is the first of two reports on Iranian students and scientists at Stanford. Part two will run in Wednesday's issue of The Stanford Daily (reprinted with permission)

Mahdiyar Noorbala's acceptance letter to Stanford's highly competitive physics doctoral program was only the first step in an arduous journey from Iran to California. After a multitude of embassy visits, visa interviews and background checks, the Iranian citizen arrived at Stanford in 2006 � almost a year after he was originally set to begin his graduate studies.

Noorbala's is one of many cases in which a U.S.-bound Iranian student has been delayed by ramped-up security measures put in place following the attacks on September 11, 2001, and President Bush's declaration that Iran is a member of an " axis of evil."

Stanford students, professors and administrators say visa delays have hindered the academic pursuits of Iran... >>>

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amazing

by MRX1 (not verified) on Wed May 28, 2008 06:23 PM PDT

I suspect this is done by zionists! after all they have nothing else to do than harras Iranians 7/24.


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jimzbund

deleh morgh kabab sheh

by jimzbund on Wed May 28, 2008 01:57 PM PDT

just a little inconvenience for people whose government is basically at war of words with USA and is the biggest supporter of the terrorism in the world!. they are lucky USA admits them in the country. as they say in farsi " ham khar mikhahamd ham khorma".

by the way many of the students are IRI agents anyway and need to be monitored.

  

Bund, Jimz Bund


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Akh, deleh morgh kabab sheh

by jimzbund on Wed May 28, 2008 01:53 PM PDT

just a little inconvenience for people whose government is basically at war of words with USA and is the biggest supporter of the terrorism in the world!. they are lucky USA admits them in the country. as they say in farsi " ham khar mikhahamd ham khorma".

by the way many of the students are IRI agents anyway and need to be monitored.

  

Bund, Jimz Bund


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They did it back in 1980 at NU

by Alborzi (not verified) on Wed May 28, 2008 12:24 PM PDT

They did the same at Northwestern back in 1980, it was just a fishing exercise, they also wanted to see how accurate their addresses are. Not much came out of it, except that was the way they collected the Japanese.


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To: Zirak

by Reza K. (not verified) on Wed May 28, 2008 12:11 PM PDT

LOL...haalaa enghadr joosh nayaa shomaa...they didn't publicly hang them!!!
They just talk to you make sure you are in violation of the laws of the land.
Baaz iin iroonee haa 'yeh kalaagh chel kalaagh ' kardan...


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It's about time. These kinds

by Anonymousvc (not verified) on Wed May 28, 2008 11:16 AM PDT

It's about time. These kinds of measures should have been taken many years ago when people like Almo, Zirak, Aham Bahai, Abarmard, Midwesty, Mammad et al immigrated to this country and got their citizenship...Finally the US is waking up.


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Are these visits ordered by the Blood Suckers in Tel Aviv?

by zirak on Wed May 28, 2008 10:11 AM PDT

Can you imagine being a young Iranian student with all the hopes for the future,  away from your family in a strange environment and with all the pressure of studying and going to school, you have to look over your shoulders as to when or why FBI is visiting you? This is another ascpet of the lies fed to Iranians in Iran and elsewhere as to the "democracy" and "human rights" in USA!

Knowing the good hearted American peple, I have no doubts that these are not the work of American people, but ordered by the blood suckers in Tel Aviv in order to disrupt the lives of  young Iranians and creating hurdles on their way from acheiving their best.


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