UMass Amherst caused an uproar last month after it banned Iranian students from its graduate science and engineering programs, but after the University changed its policy, a United States senator is asking why.
The State Department spoke to UMass Amherst, saying it doesn't necessarily ban all Iranian students and allows some to study sciences, engineering in graduate programs. Louisiana Senator David Vitter is asking the State Department why it is allowing said Iranian students to have visas for graduate schools in the U.S.
Vitter sent a letter to the State Department about its policy, saying that it was acting inappropriately when allowing Iranian students to study nuclear engineering and other certain programs.
"To put it frankly, we’re still at war with terrorist organizations and we still need strong economic sanctions on Iran until they comply with nuclear nonproliferation agreements and stop their support of terrorism," the letter stated.
The State Department had no comment on the letter.
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