Iranian Americans dismayed by discrimination in new visa regulations
by David Smith from on (#10SA8)
Measures to tighten the US visa waiver programme passed through Congress last month, impacting hundreds of thousands of Iranian Americans
Dr Firouz Naderi has served America for 35 years, climbing the ranks at Nasa, landing spacecraft on Mars and meeting Michelle Obama at the White House. But lately, he feels he has been treated like a second-class citizen in the country he calls home.
Iranian-born Naderi, a senior scientist at America's space agency, fears that new visa regulations passed in the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terror attacks will unfairly discriminate against himself and hundreds of thousands of Iranian Americans - even those born in the US.
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