Condi Rice 'Shocked' That Top Aide to Iran's Nuclear Honcho had Green Card . . . Since 1993

"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed concern yesterday about the case of a high-ranking Iranian official who arrived last month in the United States on a green card and said the Bush administration 'will take proper action' once it has established the facts of the case. Mohammad Nahavandian, an economics and technology aide to Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, has been a legal permanent resident of the United States since 1993 and did not give up that status when he joined the Iranian government last year," the Washington Times reports. "Mr. Nahavandian arrived from Canada on March 25 on a flight from Ottawa to Philadelphia, a Department of Homeland Security official said . . . He was readmitted into the United States because his green card was legal and he raised no suspicion, the DHS official said. Mr. Nahavandian did not have to show his Iranian passport when entering from Canada, and in both cases, the immigration officers had no indication that he was a foreign government official. Immigrations records show Mr. Nahavandian first arrived in the United States in 1989 on a tourist visa, the DHS official said. He was issued a student visa in 1991 to attend George Washington University and became a permanent resident two years later. His green card was renewed in early 2004."

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