American security measures are causing trouble for an Iranian-born Israeli academic trying to attend a physics conference in the United States. Avshalom Elitzur of Bar-Ilan University said the trouble started when he went to the U.S. Embassy to ask that his tourist visa to the United States be stamped onto his new passport, the Jerusalem Post reported.
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