US to deport hundreds of Iranians after deal with Tehran, Iranian official says


FILE PHOTO: U.S. and Iran flags are seen in this illustration created on June 18, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

(Reuters) -The United States is planning to deport some 400 Iranians, most of whom entered the country illegally, as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's broader crackdown on immigration, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday.

"In the first step, they decided to deport 120 Iranians who entered the U.S. illegally, most of whom through Mexico," the Iranian foreign ministry's director general for parliament affairs, Hossein Noushabadi, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

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