How Iran Plans to ‘Retaliate’ Against Trump’s Immigration Orders

Mohammad Hossein Ziya, who was forced to leave Iran, came to the U.S. in 2011 and lives in Virginia.

Tehran called the ban, which includes green card holders, an “open affront against the Muslim world and the Iranian nation”. “There is a sense of bewilderment, as well as a sense of injustice” because Iran was included in the list, Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, said.

Even if banning entire countries were an effective way to fight terrorism (which it is not), the inclusion of Iran in this ban is extremely hard to justify.

In Cairo, airport officials said seven migrants – six from Iraq and one from Yemen – were prevented from boarding an EgyptAir flight to New York’s JFK airport. Dutch airline KLM also reports having turned away seven would-be passengers who would not have been allowed into the U.S. under the new regulations.

Travel agents in Tehran said that foreign airlines had begun barring Iranians from US-bound flights. A spokeswoman did not say which country the passenger had come from.

The New York Times reported that two Iraqi refugees who landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport hours after Trump signed the tough new measures were detained by authorities.

Executives from leading tech companies have also spoken out against the executive order and its potentially damaging effect on the running of their businesses. “What is happening to Christians in the Middle East is genocide”, the official said.

Across the United States there were reports of new arrivals being detained.

Since it was announced on Friday, enforcement of the order was spotty and disorganized.

An indefinite ban will be implemented on Syrian refugees. That’s right – “guacapocalypse” is upon us, and Twitter is having a lot of fun with it.

During the same press conference, Ayrault said the policy “can only worry us”, and that “welcoming refugees who flee war and oppression is part of our duty”.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday used his own page to criticise Donald Trump’s executive order that will severely limit immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries. The order for a 30-day ban on new entries from these “terrorist-prone” countries was met with swift, fierce criticism from around the globe (from notables like former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, Nobel Peace prize victor Malala Yousafzai, and Mark Zuckerburg), but it turns out the executive order was significantly more severe than first suspected.