Iranians celebrate 2nd Oscars win for Farhadi

Hundreds of Iranians gathered Friday at Tehran Cinema Museum to celebrate Asghar Farhadi’s recent Academy Awards win for best foreign language film. In his short speech, Farhadi said the film was not a pre-planned project but, he added, ” was not supposed to be made at all.

The Latest: About 140 Somali refugees sent back to camp

The Latest on the reaction to a court order blocking U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries : A Somali refugee says about 140 refugees whose resettlement in the United States was blocked by President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration have been sent back to their refugee camp. Nadir Hassan says the group of Somali refugees was relocated to Dadaab camp in eastern Kenya on Saturday.

US ban forces Iranians home after days at Vienna airport

Three Iranians have been forced to return home after being stuck in transit at Vienna airport for three days due to the United States travel ban on people from seven mainly-Muslim countries, an Austrian Airlines official said Monday. An elderly couple and an unrelated middle-aged woman arrived from Isfahan, south of Tehran, on Saturday morning, expecting to catch connecting flights to the US to visit family members, AUA spokesman Peter Thier said.

Recent Clemson Ph.D banned from returning to US amid President Trump’s executive order

President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens of seven countries to travel to the U.S. for 90 days is affecting a recent Clemson University grad, who has been barred from traveling back to the U.S. Nazanin Zinouri, a recent Clemson grad with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, was shocked to find out that she cannot return after her vacation to see her family in Tehran, Iran. The data scientist, who works for an Upstate technology firm called Modjoul, has all the paper work and documents necessary to work and live in the United States.