DoD Pulls Clearance of Iranian-born American

A Iranian-born American who has worked for the Department of Defense since 1991 has unsuccessfully challenged DoD’s decision to suspend his security clearance citing suspicions of “foreign influence” and “foreign preference.” He says trips he’s taken to Iran in recent years were to care for his ill mother and that he cleared each trip with appropriate DoD authorities:

Officials hide behind policy. Then they go home and sleep at night. They don’t look at the human side. I haven’t given them any reason to doubt me. I’ve had a security clearance since 1991 and now they suddenly have issues.

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