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Diversity Visas for Iranians Increase Since 9/11By Fred LucasCNSNews.com Staff WriterSeptember 28, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - After 9/11, the State Department allowed more and more Iranians to legally enter the United States through Diversity Visas, an immigration program that two government investigations have identified as a national security risk. Iran, among four other nations, is defined as a terror-sponsoring state by the State Department. State Department documents tracking the Diversity Visa (DV) program from 1997 through 2006 show that Iran went from 525 citizens entering the United States on DVs in 2001 to 785 citizens in 2002. That number fluctuated before...

WASHINGTON — Prodded by Congress and human rights groups, the Bush administration is promising to increase the pace for allowing Iraqi refugees into the United States. Of the estimated 4.2 million Iraqis displaced by the war, either to nearby countries or within Iraq, only 68 Iraqis legally entered the U.S. between October and June as refugees, State Department and Homeland Security officials acknowledged Friday.