Trump administration expeling hundreds of Iranian citizens: Tehran | Donald Trump News
An official of the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that the Trump administration planned to expel around 400 Iranians.
Posted on September 30, 2025
An Iranian official said that the United States plan to expel hundreds of Iranian citizens in the coming weeks, the first 120 deportees are expected to arrive in Iran in a few days, while US President Donald Trump continues his repression of immigration.
Hossein Noushabadi, director general of parliamentary and consular affairs of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the Tasnim news agency on Tuesday that the US immigration authorities planned to expel around 400 Iranians.
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We said that the foreground of the planoad of Iranian nationals would arrive “in the coming days” after a stop in Qatar. The Qatari authorities did not immediately comment on its remarks.
We said that most of the targeted Iranian nationals had entered the United States without documentation, mainly by Mexico, while some have been faced with other immigration problems.
The deportations, which have not yet been publicly recognized by the Trump administration, are involved while tensions remain high between the two countries after the United States joined its Israel ally in the bombing of Iran during a 12-day June conflict.
They are also part of a large-scale repression against migrants and asylum seekers in the United States, with Trump committing to carry out the largest expulsion operation in the history of the country.
We said on Tuesday that the American authorities had made the decision to deport Iranian nationals without consultation with Iran.
But the New York Times, citing anonymous Iranian officials, reported that the deportations were “the culmination of months of discussions between the two countries”.
The United States media said some of the Iranians volunteered to go after being in detention centers for months, while others had not done so.
An American mapping flight took off from Louisiana on Monday and was to arrive on Tuesday in Qatar, so that the deportees can be transferred to a flight to Tehran, said an American official.
The White House and the US State Department did not immediately respond to requests from the Reuters news agency to comment.
Since his return to functions in January, Trump has decided to expel a record number of people living in the United States.
However, his administration has struggled to increase the levels of deportation, even if he has created new paths to send migrants to countries other than their own.
In February, the United States expelled 119 people from different countries, including Iran, in Panama as part of an agreement between the two nations.
