United States was configured to deport hundreds of Iran citizens, high -ranking official in Tehran He said on Tuesday, as the Trump administration takes new steps in his immigration repression.
The US authorities “planned to deport about 400 Iranians who are currently living in the United States, most of which are illegally entered.” Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hossein Nossabadi, General Director of Parliamentary Affairs, told Tasnim to the semi -official information agency.
“Of this number, 120 were chosen for deportation and will return to Iran over the next or two days,” he added, attributing the deportation of the “new US anti-immigration policy”.
The identity of the Iranians and their reasons for attempts to immigrate in the United States were not immediately clear. The United States did not recognize any deal, and the State Department did not immediately respond to a request about the comments.
The representative of the White House Ebigail Jackson said that “the Trump administration seeks to fulfill the promise of President Trump to fulfill the largest mass operation of deportation of illegal foreigners in history using all the instruments at our disposal.”
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The planned deportation marks a rare case of cooperation between the United States and Iran, which faced new criticism this week For his human rights recording How he cracks after a wave of protests and conflict with Israel.
On Monday, the Human Rights Experts of the United Nations said that they were shocked by a “dramatic escalation” in the number of executions in Iran, after more than 1000 people were killed in the first nine months of 2025.
President Donald Trump took office, promising the largest mass deportation in the history of the United States, aimed at more than 10 million unauthorized migrants living in the United States.
Nevertheless, his administration was struggling to increase the level of deportation, despite the conclusion of transactions with a number of countries.
119 people of various nationalities were deported to Panama in February as part of an agreement between the Trump administration and the central American nation.
The administration also worked to Send immigrants to third countriesOr places where they are not from and, perhaps, have never been to increase the amount of deportation. This led to loud disputes about groups Venezuelans sent to mega-copy in SalvadorThe field in July eight men from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam were also sent From the USA to South Sudan and five detained immigrants were sent to Little Africans and Iy of SamatiniField
NBC News monitors immigration Ensuring the use of ICE data, both public and internal, as well as data from the US Customs and Border Defense Agency.
