The Trump administration has been given Iran information on the sly.
The Iranian American Legal Defense Fund says it found that that in early 2025 the United States told Iran that it wanted to “get rid” of Iranians it wanted to deport.
Asylum seeker “CY” told the Fund: “A female representative of the Iranian regime from the Iranian Interest Section was on the other line of this phone call. The representative knew my name, my A number, and all the details of my asylum case, including the basis of my asylum claim, where I was in my asylum process, and even she told me that she had the entire transcript of my fear interview. The representative told me that, as we speak, she has my whole case file in her hands, and that this was all sent to them by ICE.”
The Fund also reports that “On the night of June 11, 2026, the United States government loaded asylum seekers onto a deportation flight bound for the Central African Republic, one of the most dangerous countries on earth. Among those on that flight was at least one Iranian national with a court-recognized fear of persecution…..The U.S. State Department tells its own citizens to draft a will and leave DNA samples before traveling to CAR.”
On July 15, the Fund sued the U.S. government. The suit alleged that as of March, ICE was detaining 400 to 500 Iranian asylum seekers, according to statements by an Iranian official. It alleged that the United States had provided information to Iran on at least 300 detainees and that Iran was involved in deporting up to 160 Iranian nationals. Detainees were allegedly told they could return to Iran or face deportation to a third country.