PST’s treatment of Iranian students has shocked and sobered Kaffash. They justified the reversal by saying the sanctions against Iran had changed. PST retracted their decision before the case went to the court of appeal. They took two years of my precious time, for absolutely no reason,» she said.Īfter her appeal was denied in the Oslo District Court, Kaffash started preparing for a new round in the justice system. My area of expertise has nothing to do with the development of weapons of mass destruction. «PST has shown they have made mistakes again and again. Kaffash believes she was discriminated against based purely on her nationality. «PST is God to them, so they thought there had to be something wrong with me. A lot of Norwegians were convinced I was at fault,» Kaffash said. She said she felt like a pariah, guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of both the authorities and her fellow students. Hamideh Kaffash (32) is one of the PhD students who got deported. «We’re constantly working with threats related to information leaks which could be used to develop nuclear weapons,» Berntsen said. He confirmed that PST is worried about information leaks to Iran. Norway is a technologically advanced country with the expertise to make advanced technological components,» said PST senior advisor Martin Berntsen. «Iranian government authorities have previously stated that they want to travel to the West to acquire this kind of knowledge. PST’s most recent threat assessment for 2017 says that Iran «sees great value in recruiting or placing students and researchers in Norwegian education and research institutions.» Norsk versjon: Dette er studentene PST frykter Out to steal information? The risk was determined to be too high there was concern they would use their knowledge from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to further the Iranian nuclear weapons program. In 2015, two PhD students were deported from Norway. In other words, it’s still very difficult to be an Iranian engineering student in Norway. The sanctions were loosened after the historic nuclear deal in January 2016, but nevertheless Norway is one of few countries still implementing those policies in academia. The UN has placed sanctions against Iran since 2006, partly in order to prevent the acquisition of nuclear weapons.
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