Hundreds of Iranians to be deported after US deal

The United States is planning to deport some 400 Iranians, most of whom entered the country illegally, as part of US President Donald Trump's broader crackdown on immigration, a senior Iranian official said yesterday.

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“In the first step, they decided to deport 120 Iranians who entered the US illegally, most of whom through Mexico,” the Iranian foreign ministry's director general for parliament affairs, Hossein Noushabadi, told the semiofficial Tasnim news agency.

The deportation, an uncommon instance of cooperation between the two countries, came after months of talks, according to the New York Times, which first reported the move.

Mr Noushabadi said the US was “planning to deport around 400 Iranians, most of whom entered the country illegally, in line with the new anti-immigrant approach of the US government.”