Decisions by country · Guideline B · Foreign Influence
Ties to Iran in decided clearance cases
Decided cases
294
hearing-level decisions naming this country in the text
Granted
37%
108 granted · 185 denied or revoked
Ties living in the United States
at least 56
decisions stating expressly that the relative or contact lives in the United States, so this is a floor
The ties these cases involved
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- deep U.S. ties · credited in 41 granted cases
- severed foreign contact · credited in 3 granted cases
- foreign passport surrendered · credited in 2 granted cases
- voluntary disclosure before confrontation · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
The applicant in this case was a 43-year-old electrical engineer who submitted a security clearance application on January 20, 2021. The Department of Defense (DoD) issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR)…
The applicant in this case was a 42-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Tehran, Iran, who sought a security clearance in connection with his employment as a Systems Administrator for a d…
The case involves an applicant for a security clearance who has significant ties to Iran, including family connections and dual citizenship. The applicant's foreign contacts and interests raised secur…
The applicant in this case was a 35-year-old individual who sought a security clearance but faced allegations under Guideline I (Psychological Conditions) and Guideline B (Foreign Influence). The Stat…
Other countries in the record
- China (425)
- Taiwan (296)
- Afghanistan (262)
- Iraq (229)
- India (213)
- Israel (194)
- Russia (189)
- Pakistan (184)
- Lebanon (120)
- South Korea (96)
How these numbers are measured
Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose Guideline B allegations name this country. The country field is free text in the source, so the variants observed in the record are mapped onto one canonical name and nothing is guessed; records naming several countries in one field are excluded rather than split. A case naming two countries counts once under each. Counts of country risk and of ties living in the United States are counted only where the decision says so expressly, so both are floors. Pages exist only for countries with at least 25 decided cases.
Reading the statistics
- Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
- Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
- † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
- Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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