An legal professional representing two individuals who had been deported to Iran this week alleges the U.S. eliminated them with out due course of and mentioned they’re now liable to persecution of their house nation.
Ali Herischi advised ABC Information that two of his shoppers, who he mentioned entered the U.S. via the Southern border to assert asylum prior to now 12 months, lately “disappeared” from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee locator system after which had been deported with out discover to Iran.
Herischi mentioned that one of many deportees he represents is a Christian convert who entered the nation earlier this 12 months along with his pregnant spouse.
President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the United Nations (UN) Common Meeting in the course of the eightieth session of the annual occasion on September 24, 2025, in New York Metropolis.
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Herischi advised ABC Information that his consumer’s asylum declare was denied after he was detained and he was issued an order of elimination. The consumer’s spouse, who lately gave start, stays within the U.S. and isn’t presently detained, he mentioned.
“We tried a number of occasions to ask for his attraction,” Herischi mentioned, including, “And all of a sudden, with none info, we realized that he disappeared from [the ICE] detainee locator after which the information broke that Iranians had been deported again to Iran.”
Earlier this week, an Iranian official introduced about 120 Iranian nationals detained within the U.S. could be returned to Iran within the coming weeks, in accordance with a report in Iranian state media.
The U.S. has not but acknowledged the deportations.
“We had been shocked and tried to seek out out what is going on on,” Herischi advised ABC Information.
Herischi mentioned that his consumer’s spouse was in a position to briefly communicate together with her husband who advised her that he was “shackled and handcuffed all the best way to Iran.”
Herischi referred to as the deportations “unconscionable.”
He advised ABC Information that, general, he represents 25 people who find themselves nervous about being deported to Iran.
“It was so mistaken, and sadly these are the identical those that … U.S. overseas coverage tries to guard,” Herischi mentioned. “These are those that rise up towards the regime, who pay a worth for standing up towards the regime, and you then give them again on to the hand of evil.”
ABC Information has reached out to the Division of Homeland Safety concerning the deportations of Iranian nationals however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
