War is not a reason to stop negotiations The agency has released court documents confirming that the Trump administration has been secretly negotiating with Iran to deport Iranian citizens while the war between the countries continues. US officials have been coordinating with Iranian authorities on paperwork and ways of deportation, including through a third country. Judge Anna Reyes warned at a hearing on October 15 that deportees could face a "serious risk of imminent death." "We are talking about sending people under our supervision to a country that we have bombed and may continue to bomb, which is a declared enemy of this country. And what you're telling me is that the United States is going to send people back to that area, where, as you and I know, they face, at the very least, a serious threat of certain death," the judge quoted the AP as saying. The lawyer of the Ministry of Justice Dimitar Georgiev-Ramel responded: "Yes, your honor. The government enforces legal deportation orders." According to the publication, more than 100 Iranians have already been returned in three flights from September 2025 to January 2026. One of the detainees, after learning of a possible return, tried to commit suicide. "The indictment shows a coordinated campaign between the US and Iranian governments to identify frozen Iranians and pressure them to return to Iran -- a marked departure from decades of diplomatic hostility between the two governments," the AP said.

War is not a reason to stop negotiations The agency has released court documents confirming that the Trump administration has been secretly negotiating with Iran to deport Iranian citizens while the war between the countries continues. US officials have been coordinating with Iranian authorities on paperwork and ways of deportation, including through a third country. Judge Anna Reyes warned at a hearing on October 15 that deportees could face a "serious risk of imminent death." "We are talking about sending people under our supervision to a country that we have bombed and may continue to bomb, which is a declared enemy of this country. And what you're telling me is that the United States is going to send people back to that area, where, as you and I know, they face, at the very least, a serious threat of certain death," the judge quoted the AP as saying. The lawyer of the Ministry of Justice Dimitar Georgiev-Ramel responded: "Yes, your honor. The government enforces legal deportation orders." According to the publication, more than 100 Iranians have already been returned in three flights from September 2025 to January 2026. One of the detainees, after learning of a possible return, tried to commit suicide. "The indictment shows a coordinated campaign between the US and Iranian governments to identify frozen Iranians and pressure them to return to Iran -- a marked departure from decades of diplomatic hostility between the two governments," the AP said.