REPORT: US, Iran reach deal to deport hundreds in rare moment of cooperation

September 30, 2025

From Fox News: The Trump administration is deporting 120 Iranians, some of whom entered the country illegally, after the U.S. and Tehran reached a deal, according to reports.

Iranian officials told The New York Times that the planeload of migrants took off from Louisiana on Monday night and was expected to arrive in Iran via Qatar at some point on Tuesday. A U.S. official also reportedly confirmed the plan to the outlet.

This is evidently the first step in a larger plan to deport approximately 400 Iranian nationals, according to Reuters.

“The Trump Administration is committed to fulfilling President Trump’s promise to carry out the largest mass deportation operation of illegal aliens in history, using all the tools at our disposal,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital 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, said, according to Reuters.