have been a red flag. but the thing is, i was invited to iran by an iranian university who, given my research output, decided that i was suitable to attend their university seminar. ithen.. and i was concerned about this, but i had nothing to hide. all they needed to do was google me to see what my area of research interest is, for example, and what countries i visited, i mean, i had written about it. so i went to the iranian embassy in canberra and deliberately applied in advance for my visa, being upfront that i was going to attend a university seminar, i had been invited by an iranian university, and gave them every opportunity to google my name and check my background. i didn t declare that my ex husband had an israeli passport, but i didn t believe that they would find that out. but also, i didn t believe it was relevant. i m not an israeli citizen. he was born in russia,
to think that it would be ok to go to iran with your background, given that you had spent time studying in israel and in the arab world? you were a fluent hebrew speaker, a fluent arabic speaker, you were married, newly married to a man who was an israeli russian. to the iranians, did it not seem to you that these could all be red flags? certainly from the perspective of the iranian security services or interrogators, i do think that would have been a red flag. but the thing is, i was invited to iran by an iranian university who, given my research output, decided that i was suitable to attend their university seminar. ithen.. and i was concerned about this, but i had nothing to hide. all they needed to do was google me to see what my area of research interest is, for example, and what countries i visited, i mean, i had written about it. so i went to the iranian embassy in canberra and deliberately applied in advance for my visa, being upfront that i was going to attend a university sem
newly married to a man who was an israeli russian. to the iranians, did it not seem to you that these could all be red flags? certainly from the perspective of the iranian security services or interrogators, i do think that would have been a red flag. but the thing is, i was invited to iran by an iranian university who, given my research output, decided that i was suitable to attend their university seminar. ithen.. and i was concerned about this, but i had nothing to hide. all they needed to do was google me to see what my area of research interest is, for example, and what countries i visited, i mean, i had written about it. so i went to the iranian embassy in canberra and deliberately applied in advance for my visa, being upfront that i was going to attend a university seminar, i had been invited by an iranian university, and gave them every opportunity