The Intercept | Felipe De La Hoz: The Shamelis are an extraordinarily tight-knit Iranian family. Forty-year-old Amin, the eldest of five brothers, first arrived in California in 2003, and was followed slowly but surely by his parents and siblings. All of them, that is, except for Masoud, who for a decade now has been trying to join the rest of his ...

Reuters - The U.S. State Department granted a visa to a man in Iran hoping to donate bone marrow to his U.S. citizen brother with blood cancer, obtaining a rare waiver to President Donald Trumps travel ban, the familys lawyer said on Thursday. Mahsa Khanbabai, a lawyer based in Massachusetts, said she received a call on Thursday from the consulate ...

Press TV - On the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trumps executive order ontravel ban, protesters have rallied in front of the White House under the banner of No Muslim Ban EVER. A week after taking office, Trump signed anorder on January 27, 2017, banning citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States. The ...

IRNA - The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) welcomed the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the lower court ruling blocking President Donald Trumps third Muslim ban. 'We celebrate todays victory which brings affected families and impacted communities one step closer to reunification ... Congress must immediately act to defund this ...

Press TV - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US Supreme Court's complete endorsement of President Donald Trump's travel ban on Muslims is tantamountto givinga free pass to fanaticism. "US Supreme Court defends and allows Trump's #MuslimBan to go into full effect," Zarif said on his official Twitter account on Tuesday. He ...

MNA The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed full enforcement of the latest version of the Trump administrations travel ban. The justices ruled the policy could be fully enforced even as legal challenges against it continue in the lower courts. The ban applies varying limits on visas for nationals from six Muslim-majority countries -- Chad, ...

Washington Times - PresidentTrumpimposed new restrictions on refugees from 11 high risk target countries Tuesday, reportedly all but one being mostly Muslim, saying they pose too much of a danger to be admitted without a compelling national interest. In his executive order,Mr. Trumpannounced he was restarting general refugee processing after ordering ...

Reuters - Two Afghan girls refused visas to the United States for a robot-building competition said on Tuesday they were mystified by the decision, as the contest's organizers said teams from Iran and Sudan as well as a de facto Syrian team had gained visas. The unusual story of the Afghan all-girl team of robotics students emerged as the United ...

Tasnim An American investigative journalist denounced US President Donald Trumps ban on travel from six Muslim countries as an offense to the American Constitution, saying his xenophobia is hurting the US economy and damaging human relations. In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency, David Cay Johnston hammered Trump for his lack of leadership,...

FNA- Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshrou blasted as an irrational move the US President Donald Trump's travel ban against Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen instead of Saudi Arabia. "No travel ban can prevent repetition of terrorist operations because its culprits are inside the US. ...

Press TV - The US travel ban on six Muslim-majority countries came into effect on June 30 after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to go forward with a revised version of the order. The ban denies entry to citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, who lack "bona fide relations" to individuals or entities in the United ...

AP | Amy Taxin: Weddings have been moved and family visits delayed. The Trump administrations travel ban, while a shadow of its original self, has dealt a harsh blow to the Iranian-American community, where family ties run strong and friends and loved ones regularly shuttle between Los Angeles and Tehran. But it isnt the only immigration hurdle ...

BBC - People from six mainly Muslim countries and all refugees now face tougher US entry due to President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban. It means people without "close" family or business relationships in the US could be denied visas and barred entry. Monday's Supreme Court ruling upheld the temporary ban, a key Trump policy. But the ...

Press TV - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed the new US travel ban against the citizens of Iran and five other countries as a shameful act of hostility towards the Iranian nation. US now bans Iranian grandmothers from seeing their grandchildren, in a truly shameful exhibition of blind hostility to all Iranians, Zarif tweeted ...

Al Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: The USSupreme Courts decision to revive part of President Donald Trump's travel ban imposed on citizens from six majority-Muslim countries,including Iran, has angered Tehran, with parliament members accusing the White House of violating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)nuclear dealreached in 2015 between ...

IRNA Head of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Majlis Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Wednesday that support for terrorist groups and imposing restrictions on travel of Muslims to the country are two sides of a coin and the contradictory and anti-Islamism policies of the US government, which will provoke Muslim nations hatred of the US....

AP - A prominent Iranian lawmaker has denounced the Supreme Court's partial reinstatement of President Donald Trump's travel ban, claiming that it's an "obvious breach" of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, including the United States. Hossein Naghavi Hosseini, spokesman of the parliament's committee on national security and ...

IFP - Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the discriminatory decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to partially lift blocks on Trumps travel ban that prevents all entries from six majority-Muslim countries. Although the US Supreme Courts decision is temporary and will be revised in October, it reveals the fact ...

AFP- Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned on Tuesday the US Supreme Court's decision to partially reinstate President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban targeting citizens from six predominantly Muslim countries. "It's regrettable that the citizens of the countries on the list have never participated in any act of terrorism ...

Press TV - The US Supreme Court has granted the government's request to reinstate parts of Donald Trump's controversial travel ban, handing a surprising victory to the president attempting to ban Muslims from several countries entering the United States. The Supreme Court on Monday narrowed the scope of lower court rulings that blocked Trumps Muslim ...