Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Iranians Win 4,453 ‘Diversity Visa’ Applications to Immigrate to U.S.

by Tammy on October 18, 2011

What could possibly go wrong? This is so remarkably insane it’s the not-funny laughable.

The State Department has awarded 4,453 permanent resident “Diversity Visa” applications to would-be immigrants from Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism that was recently implicated in a plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States.

The lottery program for Diversity Visas awards prospective immigrants with the chance to obtain a permanent residency visa. The 4,453 prospective Iranian immigrants will still have to pursue their visa applications on their own, according to the State Department’s website.

To be eligible, applicants must have at least a high school education or two years of work within the previous five years at a job that requires at least two years of training.

Iran’s intelligence services have been implicated in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States by bombing a restaurant or public place in Washington, D.C.

The only man arrested in that plot, so far, is a naturalized Iranian-American citizen named Manssor Arbabsiar.

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