{"id":1695,"date":"2026-06-11T20:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:13:17","slug":"us-plans-to-deport-iranians-to-central-african-republic-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"US plans to deport Iranians to Central African Republic, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>DAKAR\/NAIROBI, June 11 (Reuters) &#8211; The Trump \u200badministration plans to deport a number of Iranians and other migrants to Central African Republic, a chronically unstable country racked by violence and poverty, \u200ctwo lawyers and an official briefed on the matter told Reuters.<\/div><div>The Iranians include two women who face potential torture and persecution if they are forced to go back to Iran, their lawyer, Emily Trostle, said. One is a Christian convert and the other is a pro-democracy activist, she added.<\/div><div>The U.S. State Department and the presidency in the Central African Republic \u2014 which recently reached a \u200bdeal to accept so-called third-country deportees from the U.S. \u2014 did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/div><div>Both the women were detained upon arriving in \u200bthe U.S. in November 2024, Trostle said. They applied for asylum in the U.S. and had secured a form of protection \u2060known as withholding of removal from a U.S. immigration judge, Trostle said.<\/div><div>Obtaining that protection meant judges found they faced a risk greater than 50% of being \u200bpersecuted or tortured in Iran.<\/div><div>The official briefed on the matter told Reuters the first flight to Central African Republic under the deal was expected to take about 20 \u200bpeople, also including Syrians and Afghans. The plane could leave as early as Thursday, the two lawyers said.<\/div><div>A Turkish national who fled political persecution and also had withholding of removal may be on board as well, said the person&#8217;s lawyer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/div><h2>THIRD-COUNTRY DEPORTATION DEALS<\/h2><div>The Trump administration has used third-country deportation deals \u2014 including with Central African Republic&#8217;s neighbour the Democratic \u200bRepublic of Congo, which is now facing an Ebola outbreak \u2014 to deport people it can&#8217;t legally send home.<\/div><div>Washington has defended the deals as lawful, though rights groups and \u200badvocates have said the details of the deals are opaque and many of the deportees are ultimately repatriated.<\/div><div>The U.S. and Israel launched heavy strikes on Iran in late February, kicking \u200coff a \u2060now three-month-old war.<\/div><div>U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters in April that he thought the Iranian people should rise up against the government in Iran if a ceasefire were declared, but understood that it was too dangerous for them to do so.<\/div><div>\u201cAt the very moment the United States is promising the Iranian people freedom and support for standing against the Islamic Republic, it is sending Iranian asylum seekers who fled that same regime back toward their demise,&#8221; said Ali Rahnama, interim legal director at the \u200bIranian American Legal Defense Fund.<\/div><h2>&#8216;HUNDREDS&#8217; COULD \u200bBE DEPORTED UNDER DEAL<\/h2><div>The deportees will \u2060be held in apartments in Central African Republic&#8217;s capital Bangui and are not expected to be repatriated immediately, the briefed official said.<\/div><div>Hundreds of migrants could ultimately be deported there under the deal, the official added.<\/div><div>The plan to deport Iranians was reported \u200bearlier on Thursday by The New York Times.<\/div><div>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said last week that all deportees would \u200breceive full due process.<\/div><div>A \u2060spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration said the agency would &#8220;provide post-arrival humanitarian assistance&#8221; to the migrants sent to Bangui, at the request of the Central African government.<\/div><div>The spokesperson said the IOM was not involved in the removals and would provide assistance &#8220;on a strictly voluntary basis and respecting applicable international standards.&#8221;<\/div><div>The U.S. this year awarded $85 million to \u2060the IOM for \u200boperations in Central African Republic.<\/div><div>The country has endured repeated cycles of unrest since independence from France \u200bin 1960, leaving most of its 5.5 million people in poverty.<\/div><div>President Faustin-Archange Touadera signed peace deals last year with several rebel groups, while others have been weakened in the face of Russian mercenaries \u200band troops from Rwanda deployed to shore up Touadera&#8217;s government as well as U.N. peacekeepers.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Robbie Corey-Boulet\" class=\"wp-image-1694\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c916ea5936c68846ddc6fad29747cad2.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Robbie Corey-Boulet<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>X<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>Instagram<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>Linkedin<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1692\">Mexico opens World Cup with passion, parties and protests<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1689\">Trump nominates Jay Clayton to be next intelligence chief<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1687\">\u2018Chill, relax\u2019: Infantino says FIFA working on visa problems but cannot overrule governments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump \u200badministration plans to deport a number of Iranians and other migrants to Central African Republic, a chronically unstable country racked by violence and poverty, \u200ctwo lawyers and an official briefed on the matter told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,15,17],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","tag-immigration","tag-public-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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