Hundreds of internal emails released this week show that Iranian officials had a hand in deciding which Iranians the United States deported, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting on last-minute requests from Tehran to add names to its removal lists.
The documents, obtained by the National Iranian American Council and made public on Tuesday, offer the clearest account yet of the quiet coordination that put more than 100 Iranians on three deportation flights home, even as the two governments were trading missile strikes.
