{"id":7747,"date":"2017-07-14T12:14:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2017-07-14T12:14:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:14:32","slug":"iranian-military-agent-caught-trying-to-enter-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/07\/14\/iranian-military-agent-caught-trying-to-enter-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Military Agent Caught Trying to Enter U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subheadline\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7748 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6AC201D7-60F3-49FB-8EEC-16AF189C7527_w1023_r1_s-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6AC201D7-60F3-49FB-8EEC-16AF189C7527_w1023_r1_s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6AC201D7-60F3-49FB-8EEC-16AF189C7527_w1023_r1_s-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6AC201D7-60F3-49FB-8EEC-16AF189C7527_w1023_r1_s.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/iranian-military-agent-caught-trying-enter-u-s\/\">freebeacon: July 13, 2017<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"subheadline\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Member of Iranian fighting force<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> (<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Basij) <\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">tie<\/span>d to IRGC turned away in Boston<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>An Iranian citizen identified as a senior member of the country&#8217;s Basij military force was caught trying to enter the United States posing as a cancer researcher, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation who told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that the Trump administration should begin investigating how the individual was granted a U.S. visa in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Seyed Mohsen Dehnavi, who has been identified as a member of Iran&#8217;s highly vetted volunteer Basij force, was turned away from entering the United States at Boston&#8217;s Logan Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the situation said that Dehnavi is billing himself as a medical researcher and was to assume residency at a Boston-based hospital. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2017\/07\/11\/iranian-doctor-detained-logan-airport-boston-childrens-hospital-deportation-travel-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detained<\/a> earlier this week at Logan Airport along with his family and later sent back to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>freebeacon: July 13, 2017 Member of Iranian fighting force (Basij) tied to IRGC turned away in Boston An Iranian citizen identified as a senior member <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/07\/14\/iranian-military-agent-caught-trying-to-enter-u-s\/\" title=\"Iranian Military Agent Caught Trying to Enter U.S.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7749,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions\/7749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}