US-Israeli War Traps Iranian-American Adoptee Facing Deportation

A woman adopted by an American war veteran from an Iranian orphanage is facing deportation to Iran.

“Just when she thought the prospect of being deported to Iran couldn’t get any worse, the country she considers her own, the United States, attacked her ancestral homeland”

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She has no criminal record but DHS claims she overstayed her visa at age four.

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She said, I can't imagine going under these circumstances; they've already killed six American service members.

She is one of thousands of international adoptees never granted citizenship due to legal complexities.

At the time the adoption process was distinct from naturalization.

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She discovered the citizenship gap in 2008 when trying to obtain a passport.

The prospect of deportation became more alarming as tensions escalated between the U.S. and Iran.

“A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and now on the brink of war with the United States”

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She has no memories of Iran, no family there, and does not speak Farsi.

She fears deportation could be a death sentence given her Christian faith.