Iranians in US face deportation to Iran despite protest deaths and executions
People wrapped in plastic bags lie on the ground representing those who died in the protest in Iran during a ‘Solidarity with the People of Iran’ event in front of City Hall in Downtown Los Angeles on January 18, 2026. — Getty Images via AFP
Sunday, 25 Jan 2026 9:09 AM MYT
WASHINGTON, Jan 25 — The Trump administration plans to repatriate Iranian migrants from the United States despite their home country still reeling from massive protests during which thousands were killed, according to an Iranian-American NGO.
The deportation flights would be the first to Iran since the beginning of the mass uprisings in the country, which peaked in early January before being violently repressed.
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to launch military strikes on Iran in response to the crackdown, but has since appeared to walk back those threats after he said Tehran suspended planned executions.
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) said on Thursday it had learned that Trump’s administration was planning to restart deportation flights to Iran, after prior removals in September and December.
“The same administration that promised Iranians that ‘help is on the way’ amid a deadly crackdown is now forcibly sending Iranians back into danger,” said NIAC president Jamal Abdi.
Abolfazl Mehrabadi, a diplomat representing Tehran’s interests in the United States, told Iran’s official IRNA news agency on Saturday that about 40 Iranians were to be deported.
They will depart on Sunday from an airport in Phoenix, Arizona, he said.
Among them are two gay men who face execution in Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, according to a statement from the American Immigration Council, an immigrant advocacy organization representing them.
The two men are currently being held in an immigration detention center in Arizona, and legal proceedings to prevent their deportation are still ongoing, according to the organization.
The US Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to AFP queries about the planned deportations. — AFP
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) is a lobbying group widely viewed as the de facto "Iran Lobby" in Washington, D.C. due to its history of lobbying for stances on behalf of, and aligned with, Islamic Republic of Iran.
ReplyDeleteYes, deport them all, back to the Aya-Toilet.
The President of NIAC can't even understand or speak Persian.
ReplyDeleteTo really understand how much Jamal Abdi and NIAC are “connected” to Iran, you only need to see this clip.
He appeared on VOA Persian and needed a translator to answer basic questions 😂
Ps in this interview he got owned so bad that he stopped apprearing on Persian channels
https://x.com/Tarikh_football/status/1944084870658990497?s=20
To U.S. News Media,
ReplyDeleteThe clowns at NIAC DO NOT represent the vast majority of Iranian Americans nor Iranians in Iran. These morons are lobbyists & shameful apologists for the murderous Ayatollahs in Iran. Featuring these scum in your outlets only advances the mullah regime!🤮
https://x.com/KarmelMelamed/status/2014377564161376723?s=20
Emory University has removed Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, daughter of senior regime official Ali Larijani, from its faculty.
ReplyDeleteAs officials like him are ordering a massacre of thousands of freedom-seeking Iranians, there is no place for their affiliates in our universities.
https://x.com/nufdiran/status/2015163955669283023?s=46&t=8K6fzabO3g6uaj4KxwSSjg
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Delete- Exodus 34:7 King James Version