Still separated: COVID-19 order keeps families apart after Biden lifts 'Muslim ban'


  • World
  • Thursday, 21 Jan 2021

Mania Darbani and her mother Maryam Taghdissi Jani are seen in a restaurant in Tehran, Iran in this 2017 handout photo. Mania Darbani/Handout via REUTERS

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - On Tuesday night, on the eve of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Mania Darbani’s mother called her from Iran.

She was ecstatic that Biden would soon repeal the Trump administration’s so-called "Muslim ban" that barred people from a number of mostly Muslim-majority nations, including Iran, from coming to the United States.

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