My my, such paranoia is often the glove before the gauntlet of war. As Iran is a nest of religious fanaticism shouldn’t our press, the ACLU, the NEA and all the rest get on the bandwagon of making an example for the rest of the fence-sitting Arab world? Or are they the type of “intellectuals” who figure selling everyone around them out will save them?
Won’t be long before the Iranians lob a nuke into Tel Aviv just for chuckles.
It may not be total paranoia. A few years ago we knew a fellow who may or may not still have been a student at the time but who was apparently caught passing on information (I'm sure it was rather low-level) to the US.
Fortunately he was able to escape and was accepted by a Western country as a refugee, though for a time it was dicey. (We were lobbying our congressfolks on his behalf.) We've since lost touch with him.
And I'm not so sure "Iran is a nest of religious fanaticism" -- that's certainly not what I hear from my Iranian friends, whether Muslim or Christian (the Bahais have a slightly different view but I don't think it accords with my interpretation of what you wrote, and I don't know any Jewish Iranians).
Though the Iranian government does use Islam as one of its means to keep a rein on a restive public, one of the results I hear is to make some portion of that public disgusted with Islam.
(Perhaps others with closer ties to Iran can amplify/correct this?)