Foreign Policy | SAEED JALILI,FOROUGH ALAEI: When Peyman celebrated his wifes birthday in his apartment in Tehran on Nov. 13, 2018, he was the only family member in the room. There were two balloons, a plate of fruit, a small birthday cake with candles, and a photo of his wife holding their two young daughters projected on a curtain behind an empty ...

The Wall Street Journal - State Department advises Americans not to travel abroad President Trump announced a 30-day ban on some travel from Europe into the U.S. and said he would act to offer financial assistance to those affected by the coronavirus pandemic rapidly spreading across the country and around the world. Mr. Trump, in a national ...

The New York Times | Maria Cramer: American embassies appeared to sympathize with an Iranian woman who feared returning to Iran after an image of her looking like she was not wearing a hijab circulated online. The Iranian chess official said she began seeing the messages of support from American government officials soon after she said she was afraid ...

Euronews - The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban by restricting travel from six countries,citing security risks, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. The countries Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania join seven other nations, five with Muslim majorities, that were already part of a Trump administration's ...

The Guardian | Sam Levin: As penalties create hardship for Irans residents, Iranians in US also suffer consequences: The sanctions are still chasing me Following the US assassination of a top Iranian general earlier this month and Iranian airstrikes against US military bases in Iraq, Donald Trump once again imposed biting sanctions against the regime ...

The Guardian | Caleb Hampton: A growing number of students are being banned by US authorities, despite having gone through an intense approval process Mohammad Elmi was on his way to fulfill a lifelong dream. On 13 December 2019, the 31-year-old Iranian boarded a flight to Los Angeles to join his wife in the United States and start a PhD program ...

The New York Times | Aidan Gardiner: Readers in the United States with ties to Iran share how they have been affected by President Trumps travel ban. With the holidays and a long school break almost here and many families gathering together, we reached out to those who have been affected by President Trumps travel ban to see how they and their relatives ...

Reuters - With Tokyo 2020 looming, Iranian sprinter Maryam Toosi has been desperately trying to come to the U.S. to pursue her Olympic Games dream, but is still trying to overcome one seemingly insurmountable hurdle President Donald Trumps travel ban. The 31-year-old, who shot to fame by winning gold in the 400 metres at the 2012 Asian Indoor Championships ...

Press TV - US President Donald Trump has authorized his State Department to put a travel ban on top Iranian officials and their families over baseless terrorism charges. The White House unveiled the travel ban in a proclamation on its website on Wednesday, stating that senior officials of the Government of Iran and their immediate family members ...

IRNA Limiting Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York was an "odd" move, if not a "cheap" one, said the spokesman of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in his weekly press conference on Monday. Abbas Mousavi said that as soon as the US made this decision and gave Iran a notice about the "funny" limitations on Iranian diplomats ...

Deutsche Welle - The US consulate accused a German-Iranian father of using his late son's funeral as an excuse to migrate to the US. Seyed Shahram Iranbomy was denied the visa he needed to attend. He's lived in Germany for 40 years. A German-Iranian father who wanted to travel to the United States to attend his son's funeral was denied a three-day ...

Euronews - A Yemeni woman is barred from seeing her 2-year-old son who is reportedly dying in a California hospital because of the Trump administration's travel ban against people from several mostly Muslim-majority countries, advocates for the family said Monday. The boy, Abdullah, suffers from a genetic brain condition that has continued to worsen....

Reuters | Yeganeh Torbati: During the six-hour drive from New York City to a tiny town in northern Vermont, Iranian student Shirin Estahbanati cried at the thought of seeing her father for the first time in nearly three years. Since then, he had suffered a heart attack, and she hadnt dared leave America to comfort him. But as she traveled north,...

IRNA An senior lawmaker said on Sunday that a group of MPs are now mulling and collecting signature for a plan to set travel ban on top officials, governor generals and MPs for a-two-year period enabling the judiciary to examine their performance. Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Abolfazl Aboutorabi said the plan paves the way ...

Atlantic Council |Tahereh Hadian-Jazy: The Supreme Courts 5-4 decision to uphold the third iteration of President Donald Trumps travel banfalls hardest on Iranians both those seeking to travel to the US and those in the US who cannot go home without jeopardizing their ability to return. The situation is particularly dire for Iranians studying for ...

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 ...

IFP - A group of Muslim people held a mass prayer in front of the White House in Washington D.C. to protest US President Donald Trumps travel ban on the one-year anniversary of its signing. Addressing the group of protesters on Saturday, National Policy and Advocacy Director Lakshmi Sridaran reported that hate violence in the US increased by 45 ...

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 ...