Posted on 10/27/2011 6:40:53 PM PDT by opentalk
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told BBC Persia Wednesday that the State Department plans to set up a "virtual embassy" in Tehran by the end of the year to answer questions about how Iranians can study or travel in the United States.
"I'm trying to increase the number of visas for students so that we have more Iranian students coming to study here. We’re trying to reach out to the Iranian people, and we’ve tried to reach out to the government, just not very successfully," she said in an interview with BBC Persia's Bahman Kalbasi.
Clinton said the U.S. wants to have "better relations" with the Iranian people and also with an Iranian government "that is responsive to its own people" and give more than lip-service to democracy
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How many of the 911 hijackers came here originally on student visas?
Staff it with Jimmy Carter!
Just why is this loser-oaf talking to anyone? No one cares what she says.
You can’t fix stupid.
As part of the interview, Clinton fielded questions from viewers across the Persian-speaking world. Asked why the U.S. did not take a more active role in Iran's abortive pro-democracy Green Movement in 2009, Clinton said the Obama administration was "torn."
The United States did not want to make it look like the anti-regime protests in Iran were being directed or influenced by the United States.
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Damn Hillary opening the door to America to the Islamoterrorists! Hey America! How’s that commie ‘RAT hope and change workin’ out for ya?!
Where the heck has she been? People have been coming here from Iran for schooling since the ‘70’s and probably even before that. Long before we ever heard of the Clintons.
Gadzooks! You cannot... 
make this stuff up!
What planet... 
do these folks live on?
The only possible consolation is that when these Iranian students... 
set off the nukes in Washington, we get to elect a full new clean slate--
She’s sure looked bad lately, I wonder whose doing her hair, Bill?
Isn’t that Achmydidjihad second from the right?
Why?
Exactly
“”I’m trying to increase....”
She’s doing this all by herself?
Quite an arrogant statement by someone who heads a department of about 50,000. What do they do?
Why?
Given the quality of an American University "Education", its likely that they will learn quality topics like Minority Studies, French Lesbian Poetry, 1990s movie themes, Marxism, High energy physics and whatever useless dreck that flows like a torrent from the utterly worthless liberal university cartel.
Basically they will learn how to binge drink, fornicate and protest just like every other college student.
Can we please beg Iran to send this woman a permanent visa to their country and take her husband along with her as well?
You lie hillary!
The community agitator and YOURSELF didn't help the protestors bc he/you wanted a grand bargain w/ the protestors' oppressors, the terrorist mullahcracy ruling Iran.
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