Zweiter US-Abschiebeflug in den Iran

Wenn es um Massenabschiebungen geht, kennen die USA nur Partner und keine Feinde. So startete nun auch schon der zweit Flieger in den Iran.

Dank eines Rücknahmeabkommens, dass Washington mit dem Regime in Teheran abgeschlossen hat, können nun auch Iranerinnen und Iraner deportiert werden. Was mit ihnen dann geschieht ist völlig ungewiss und interessiert in der US-Administration auch niemanden. Die New York Times berichtet:

The plane — carrying about 50 Iranian citizens, as well as deportees from Arab countries and Russia — departed from an airport in Mesa, Ariz. and will make stops in Egypt and Kuwait, said the two Iranian officials, who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The U.S.-chartered deportation flight to Iran was the second of its kind, after the first took off in September, after months of negotiations between Tehran and Washington.

Iran and the United States have not had diplomatic relations since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and for decades the United States has provided refuge to Iranian dissidents, religious and ethnic minorities; members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community; and others fleeing persecution in their homeland.
But as part of the Trump administration’s pursuit of mass deportations, it reached a deal with Tehran to coordinate the return of Iranian citizens facing deportation — currently estimated at about 2,000 people — and send them on chartered planes to Tehran.(…)

The first flight of Iranian deportees departed in September and landed in Tehran in early October, by way of Qatar, and at least eight out of 45 people on the flight said they had resisted deportation, begging to not be sent to Iran because they feared for their lives. Two deportees on the flight to Tehran recounted their ordeals in detail, saying they had been beaten by immigration officials in the United States and in Qatar and dragged onto the plane.

Upon landing in Tehran in October, deportees said they were terrified, as they were questioned at the airport and made to fill out forms explaining why they had left Iran and sought asylum in America. Several of the deportees said they had been called in for interrogation by the intelligence wing of the Revolutionary Guards Corps.