{"id":118720,"date":"2026-01-27T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/us-deports-3-former-iranian-guard-members-amid-rising-tensions-with-tehran-118720"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:37:38","slug":"us-deports-3-former-iranian-guard-members-amid-rising-tensions-with-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/us-deports-3-former-iranian-guard-members-amid-rising-tensions-with-tehran-118720","title":{"rendered":"US deports 3 former Iranian Guard members amid rising tensions with Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>FIRST ON FOX: <\/strong>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\/deportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deported three Iranian nationals<\/a> known or suspected of terrorism on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security said the three nationals \u2014 Ehsan Khaledi, Mohammad Mehrani and Morteza Nasirikakolaki \u2014 were former members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were on board a deportation flight Sunday of 14 Iranians \u2014 the first to head back to Tehran, Iran, since sweeping anti-government protests triggered a deadly government crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>Both Mehrani and Khaledi entered the U.S. illegally in Southern California in 2024, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Nasirikakolaki entered illegally in November 2024, when he was encountered by Border Patrol near San Luis, Arizona, the agency said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/iran-protests-prompt-new-trump-warning-over-deadly-government-crackdowns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IRAN PROTESTS PROMPT NEW TRUMP WARNING OVER DEADLY GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWNS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The White House insisted that any who were deported had &#8220;Executable Final Orders meaning a federal judge has ordered their removal from the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the Trump administration, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 1,400 known or suspected terrorists, the Department of Homeland Security said, and 7,400 gang members.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian deportation flight garnered attention due to reports of human rights abuses associated with the protests. Two unlawful migrants scheduled to be on the flight were gay men, and their lawyer, Bekah Wolf, had warned they stood &#8220;an extremely high chance&#8221; of being executed if they returned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/top-iran-prayer-leader-who-dubbed-protesters-trumps-soldiers-calls-executions-amid-ongoing-unrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TOP IRAN PRAYER LEADER WHO DUBBED PROTESTERS &#8216;TRUMP&#8217;S SOLDIERS&#8217; CALLS FOR EXECUTIONS AMID ONGOING UNREST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the men were moved into quarantine due to measles exposure and were not on the flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s deportation was the third flight returning Iranian nationals to their home country since September 2025. The previous two flights were believed to have at least 55 people on them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC is Iran\u2019s elite military force, separate from the country\u2019s regular army and reporting directly to Supreme Leader Ayatollah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/ali-khamenei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Khamenei<\/a>. U.S. officials have\u00a0designated the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization, citing its long history of involvement in terrorist activity, support for extremist proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas, and plots against U.S. personnel and interests worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through its Quds Force, the IRGC provides training, funding and weapons to militant groups and has been linked to assassination plots, attacks on U.S. forces and allies, and other covert operations that Washington says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/terror\/counter-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threaten American national security<\/a> and regional stability.<\/p>\n<p>U.S.\u2013Iran tensions have climbed sharply in recent weeks as President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has publicly kept the option of military action on the table amid Iran\u2019s deadly crackdown on nationwide protests, warning Tehran that the United States could respond if executions or mass killings continued.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/g7-threatens-iran-new-sanctions-nationwide-protest-crackdown-killing-thousands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Human Rights Activists News Agency<\/u><\/a> estimates that nearly 6,000 people have been killed since protests broke out at the start of 2026. Meanwhile, the U.S. is building up its U.S. naval and air force presence near Iran, including with the arrival of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-deports-3-former-iranian-guard-members-amid-rising-tensions-tehran\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-deports-3-former-iranian-guard-members-amid-rising-tensions-tehran <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deported three Iranian nationals known or suspected of terrorism on Sunday.\u00a0 Homeland Security said the three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-118720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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