US anti-Iranian visa law making no sense: Professor
Press TV has conducted an interview with Ebrahim Mohseni, a professor at the University of Tehran, and Kenneth Katzman, a senior analyst at the US Congressional Research Service from Washington, on the real intention behind the US' new anti visa-waiver legislation.
Mohseni said the US' new anti visa-waiver legislation does not protect the country’s “national security interests” because the countries whose nationals have carried out terrorist acts in the United States have not been mentioned in the new legislation.
“Ostensibly this bill is to prevent Daesh members, who are holding European or Australian passports, from infiltrating into the US, but the countries that are named are countries that have no relations with those terrorist entities,” he argued.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan and countries whose citizens and territories have been used to fund or at least motivate terrorist attacks inside the US, have been ignored in the list of the visa-waiver law, the professor noted.
Iranians and even Europeans are of the opinion that the new US legislation “makes no sense” at all, he said, adding, “It looks like an anti-Iran legislation that was basically imposed on the administration.”
“This seems like a smart way of introducing new extra-territorial sanctions on Iran,” Mohseni stated, noting that the US wants to pretend that Washington abides by the provisions of a nuclear agreement between the P5+1 and Iran, but Americans resort to new ways of putting pressure on Iranians.
Katzman, for his part, believes the US has targeted Iranian nationals for visa restrictions because the American authorities still claim that Iran is on the list of “state sponsors of terrorism.”
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