Government targeting Iranians Americans, rights coalition says

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Government targeting Iranians Americans, rights coalition says

BY NATHANIEL HOFFMAN

Knight Ridder Newspapers


SAN FRANCISCO - (KRT) - About seven months ago an Iranian American called the American Civil Liberties Union to report that an FBI agent had phoned for an interview.

The agent mentioned she was part of the "Iran desk," said ACLU Arab, Muslim and South Asian advocate Dalia Hashad.

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"Over the past year or so there are increasing numbers of Iranian Americans who are being discriminated against across the board," Hashad said Wednesday at a news conference at the offices of the National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement.

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But after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, the FBI did question large numbers of Arabs and Muslims in the United States. And before the war in Iraq agents targeted thousands of Iraqis for questioning.

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