While the current régime has justified the illegal war in Iran by claiming it is making the country safe for democracy, Iranians under the régime’s care suffer from unjust detention and threats of deportation to a country that in many cases would be likely to kill them.

On March 6, ICE reported the death of Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi, a 59-year-old Iranian man who had lived in the US for 35 years. Najafabadi died of heart failure 9 days after being booked into an ICE facility in Louisiana, despite ICE itself having records of his chronic illness going back over a decade.

Ryan Costello of the National Iranian-American Counsel states, “We have received reports of deplorable conditions… at ICE detention facilities, including those where [Najafabadi] was detained… We know that some detained Iranians who did not face the prospect of retaliation from the Iranian government willingly chose deportation back to Iran in recent months rather than continue to be detained in such awful conditions.” Other Iranians, including a same-sex couple, do face retaliation from Iran’s government, and are therefore stuck between two horrific options.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)