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October 22, 2016
Is Iran Ratcheting Up Influence-Peddling in American Universities?
By Stephen Schwartz

The American academy, which has revealed itself to be markedly susceptible to the intrigues of the Saudi-based radical Wahhabi sect and the Muslim Brotherhood, now faces the challenge of an Iranian radical presence.

Since 2014, admission of Iranian students to U.S. colleges has been permitted by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.  Iran has yet to flood the U.S. with its own professors.  Nevertheless, there are indications that an Iranian wave may soon hit the American academic community.  A network of apologists for the Iranian clerical regime already exists within the Middle East studies departments of American educational institutions.  How much will this attitude grow in light of the Obama administration's turn toward Tehran?

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