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洛杉矶——最新披露的邮件显示，2025年末至2026年初，美国移民官员曾与伊朗合作遣返伊朗籍人员，这暴露了尽管美伊两国紧张局势升级，但双方仍存在合作关系。
美国伊朗裔全国委员会获取并于周二公开的数百封美国移民官员之间的往来邮件，迄今为止最清晰地还原了两国如何合作，在2025年9月、12月及2026年1月分三趟移民专机将100多名伊朗籍人员遣返回伊朗的全过程。
邮件显示，伊朗官员对哪些在美国的伊朗移民会被遣返回国有一定影响力，美国移民与海关执法局官员显然会听取伊朗方面提出的对遣返名单的最后修改要求。
“应伊朗大使馆的要求，我新增了几个案例，”一名未具名的美国移民与海关执法局官员在8月下旬写道，此时距离9月首趟遣返航班还有一个月。仅一周多后，另一名同职位官员在与“伊朗大使馆主任”会面后，再次对遣返名单进行了未明确说明的修改。
“伊朗方面要求我修改此前的清单，并加快遣返流程，”该官员写道。
在9月26日的一封邮件中，也就是遣返航班离开美国领土的三天前，一名美国移民与海关执法局官员表示，伊朗大使馆仍在要求增加三名伊朗籍人员到该航班名单中。目前尚不清楚最终哪些人登上了这趟航班，最终实际登机人数比最初计划的要少得多。伊朗官员甚至在航班起飞当天仍在提出新要求，但一名官员写道，这些要求被拒绝了。
邮件显示，尽管美国移民与海关执法局官员内部承认，2025年6月美伊以之间为期12天的致命冲突爆发后，伊朗民众正纷纷逃离本国，但协调遣返航班仍是一项高度优先事项。这些航班是在美伊以与伊朗达成停火协议数月后起飞的。
此次披露的邮件凸显出美国政策的明显转变：自1979年伊斯兰革命迫使大量伊朗人流离失所以来，美国数十年来一直欢迎伊朗异见人士、流亡者及其他伊朗裔人士入境。
将伊朗籍人员遣返回一个长期存在针对女性、宗教少数群体和政治异见者暴力迫害行为的国家，遭到了人权活动人士的强烈批评。
美国国土安全部未对周二下午发出的邮件采访请求作出回应。
伊朗官员在2025年9月承认，根据与特朗普政府达成的协议，最多可有400名伊朗籍人员被遣返。他们表示，其中大多数人是非法从墨西哥进入美国的，另有一些人存在其他移民问题。
邮件中并未明确美国移民官员与伊朗政府直接接触的频率。有时信息通过卡塔尔官员传递，这些官员协助通过多哈 charter 了遣返航班；但有时官员们提到会定期与“伊朗代表团”、“伊朗大使馆主任”及其他未具名的伊朗官员会面。
目前尚不清楚伊朗列入名单的人员是自愿回国，还是被迫离开美国。《纽约时报》此前的报道显示，包括寻求庇护者在内的人员被遣返回伊朗，另有一些人称他们是被强迫遣返的。
邮件显示，至少有一名本不应被遣返的伊朗籍人员登上了飞机。
“一名未被列入我们发给卡塔尔内政部的最终清单的伊朗人登上了这趟航班，”一名未具名的美国官员写道。
另一名未具名的美国官员回应称：“我完全不清楚这个人是如何登上飞机的。”
邮件显示，即便在2025年6月13日至24日美伊以与伊朗爆发12天冲突期间，特朗普政府高层仍向美方施压要求推进伊朗籍人员的遣返工作。
特朗普总统6月16日在社交媒体上警告“所有人立即撤离德黑兰！”仅几天后，美国移民与海关执法局前代理局长托德·莱昂斯在发给该局遣返行动负责人马科斯·查尔斯及多名未具名工作人员的邮件中，将遣返伊朗移民称为“优先事项”。
莱昂斯发邮件后不久，查尔斯将该邮件转发给了一批姓名被隐去的官员。一名未具名的美国移民与海关执法局官员回应警告称，在冲突持续期间，遣返工作将“困难重重”，因为伊朗不会为符合遣返条件的伊朗籍人员签发旅行证件。此外，轰炸期间伊朗领空对所有航班关闭，伊朗民众也正逃离本国。
查尔斯并未因此动摇，在随后发给工作人员的邮件中要求制定计划，将当时由美国移民与海关执法局羁押的58名持有最终遣返令的伊朗籍人员遣返。
“我们需要尽快制定推进方案，”查尔斯写道。另一名姓名被隐去的官员敦促同事“为这一白宫优先事项找到解决方案”。
美国伊朗裔全国委员会主席贾马尔·阿卜迪表示，这些邮件破坏了特朗普所称的“美国与伊朗开战是为了拯救普通伊朗民众脱离压迫政权”的说法。
“这表明，当前的首要任务是不惜一切手段尽可能多地驱逐人员，”阿卜迪说。
美国伊朗裔全国委员会政策主任瑞安·科斯特洛表示：“这些文件揭露了一场需要政府最高层给出解释的行动。”
邮件多次显示，美国移民与海关执法局官员会安排伊朗官员出于未明确说明的原因与在美国被羁押的人员会面，这与7月一个无党派伊朗利益集团提起的一起无关诉讼中伊朗寻求庇护者的证词相吻合。
11名在移民拘留中心的伊朗籍人员称，他们在被羁押期间被迫与伊朗政府官员会面。根据7月在华盛顿特区法院提交的宣誓证词，这些伊朗当局掌握了他们庇护申请的详细信息。
该诉讼指控美国移民机构非法向伊朗政府分享有关伊朗寻求庇护者的机密信息。
美国政府被允许与外国政府官员合作协调遣返后勤事宜。但1990年代末通过的联邦法规禁止政府分享可能暴露被遣返人员曾申请庇护的信息。
美国国土安全部曾强烈否认该诉讼的指控。
“有关美国移民与海关执法局向伊朗政府分享庇护申请记录的指控是虚假的，”美国国土安全部在7月的一份声明中表示。
ICE, Iran quietly worked together on deporting Iranians to Iran, emails show
2026-08-20T05:44:00-0400 / CBS News
Updated on: August 20, 2026 / 6:11 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Los Angeles — U.S. immigration officials worked with Iran to deport Iranians in late 2025 and early 2026, newly released emails show, revealing a working relationship between the U.S. and Iranian governments despite tensions mounting between them.
Hundreds of emails exchanged between U.S. immigration officials, which were obtained by the National Iranian American Council and made public Tuesday, offer the most transparent play-by-play yet of how the two countries worked together to arrange for more than 100 Iranians to be flown back to Iran on three separate immigration flights in September and December 2025 and January 2026.
The emails show that Iranian officials had some influence over which Iranian immigrants in the U.S. were sent back to their home country, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials apparently heeded some last-minute changes to deportation lists that Iran requested.
“Per request from the Iran Embassy I added a few cases,” one unnamed ICE official wrote in late August, a month before the first deportation flight in September. Just over a week later, someone with the same job title moved to make another, unspecified change to the deportation list after they said they met with the “Director at the Iranian Embassy.”
“Iran has requested that I amend the previous manifest and expedite the removal process,” the official wrote.
In a Sept. 26 email, just three days before the deportation flight left U.S. soil, an ICE official said in an email that the Iranian Embassy was still making requests for three additional Iranians on the flight. It’s not clear who ended up on the flight, which wound up being much smaller than initially planned. Iranian officials were still making requests the day the flight departed, although one official wrote that those requests were denied.
Coordination of the flights remained a high priority even as ICE officials acknowledged internally that Iranians were fleeing Iran amid the deadly 12-day war with the U.S. and Israel in June 2025, emails show. The flights departed just months after the U.S. and Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Iran.
The new emails highlight a clear departure from a decades-long practice by the U.S. of welcoming Iranian dissidents, exiles and others since the 1979 Islamic Revolution forced a large number of Iranians to flee.
The deportation of Iranians to a country whose government has a pattern of violent persecution against women, religious minorities and political dissidents has drawn significant criticism from human rights activists.
The Department of Homeland Security did not offer comment in response to an emailed request sent Tuesday afternoon.
Iranian officials acknowledged in September 2025 that as many as 400 Iranians could be returned under an agreement with the Trump administration. They said most of the Iranians had crossed into the U.S. from Mexico illegally, while some faced other immigration issues.
It is not clear from the emails how frequently U.S. immigration officials had direct contact with the Iranian government. Sometimes messages were conveyed through Qatari officials, who helped charter the deportation flights through Doha, but other times officials reference regular meetings with the “Iranian delegation,” the “Director at the Iranian Embassy” and other unnamed Iranian officials.
It is not clear whether the people Iran put on the list had volunteered to repatriate or if they were forced to leave the U.S. Previous reporting from The New York Times revealed that asylum-seekers were among those deported to Iran, while others said they were deported against their will.
At least one person who was deported wasn’t supposed to be, emails showed.
“An Iranian not included on the final manifest we sent to the Qatari MOI was boarded on the flight,” an unnamed U.S. official wrote.
In response, another unnamed U.S. official wrote, “I have no idea how the case/person got through on the plane.”
Emails suggest that pressure to carry out the Iranian deportations came from the highest levels of the Trump administration, even when the U.S. and Israel were exchanging strikes with Iran in a 12-day conflict between June 13 and June 24, 2025.
Just days after a June 16 warning from President Trump on social media that “Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” the former acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, called the repatriation of Iranian immigrants a “priority” in an email sent to the agency’s head of removal operations, Marcos Charles, and a number of unnamed staff.
Shortly after Lyons’ email, Charles forwarded the message to a group of officials whose names are redacted. An unnamed ICE official responded, warning that “removal will prove difficult” amid the ongoing conflict because Iran wasn’t issuing the travel documents for Iranians eligible for deportation. On top of that, the Iranian airspace was closed to all flights during the bombings and Iranians were fleeing the country.
Charles was unfazed, telling staff in a subsequent email to make a plan to deport 58 Iranians with final removal orders in ICE custody at the time.
“We need a plan forward ASAP,” Charles wrote. Another official, whose name was redacted, urged colleagues to “identify a solution for this White House priority.”
Jamal Abdi, the president of the National Iranian American Council, said the emails undermine Mr. Trump’s assertions that the U.S. is at war with Iran to save ordinary Iranians from a repressive regime.
“It demonstrates that the top priority here was to kick out as many people as possible by whatever means necessary,” Abdi said.
NIAC Policy Director Ryan Costello said, “These documents expose an operation that demands answers from the highest levels of government.”
On several occasions, the emails show ICE officials arranging for Iranian officials to meet for unspecified reasons with people detained in the U.S., echoing testimony from Iranian asylum-seekers in an unrelated lawsuit filed by an unaffiliated Iranian interest group in July.
Eleven Iranians in immigration detention said they were forced to meet with Iranian government officials while in ICE detention. Those Iranian authorities knew intimate details about their asylum claims, according to the sworn declarations filed in a Washington, D.C., court in July.
The lawsuit alleges that U.S. immigration agencies have been illegally sharing confidential information about Iranian asylum-seekers with the Iranian government.
The U.S. government is allowed to work with government officials of foreign countries to coordinate deportation logistics. However, federal regulations passed in the late 1990s prohibit the government from sharing information that could reveal that the person getting deported applied for asylum.
DHS vehemently disputed the lawsuit’s allegations.
“These allegations that ICE shared asylum application records with the Iranian government are FALSE,” DHS said in a statement in July.
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