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No more protection status – thousands of Afghans threaten deportation
Updated on May 13, 2025 – 01:49Reading time: 26 min.
The US government takes up protection status for Afghans. Trump increases the pressure on Europe when it comes to medication prices. All developments in the news blog.
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In the middle of its ongoing nuclear discussions with Iran, the United States announced new sanctions against Tehran on Monday and justified this with the continuation of the Iranian nuclear program. “Iran continues to expand its nuclear program,” said Foreign Minister Marco Rubio on Monday, one day after the end of a further round of negotiations between rankhohing representatives of both countries in Oman. Tehran carries out “research and development activities with a double intended use”.
These activities are referring to nuclear weapons and carrier systems for nuclear weapons, “Rubio continued. He added that Iran was the only country in the world without nuclear weapons that enriched uranium to a purity level of 60 percent. With the sanctions, all assets of the persons and organizations in the USA are frozen, the cooperation with them is prohibited.
According to the US State Department, the latest sanctions are directed against three Iranian nuclear program representatives and the Iranian company Fuya Pars Prospective Technologists, which talks connections to the Iranian military research organization. The company Fuya Pars Prospective Technologists, which is also known as the ideal Vacuum, tried to “procure equipment from foreign suppliers and to produce equipment in their own country that could be used for the research and development of nuclear weapons,” it said.
Donald Trump is considering a visit to Türkiye on Thursday, should there be direct conversations between Ukraine and Russia. This is possible if he had the impression that things could move, Trump said on Monday in Washington before a three -day trip to the Golf region.
The US President will be expected in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates from Tuesday. From there, he may continue to fly to Turkey, said Trump. “I have so many meetings, but I was thinking about flying there.”
Turkey had offered itself in the stuck negotiations on a ceasefire as an intermediary between Russia and Ukraine. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan invited both parties to direct talks in his country.
In the future, the employees of the US federal police FBI will take care of the enforcement of the immigration laws and will resort to investigations against economic crime. According to four people familiar with the matter, the employees in FBI branch offices were instructed in a number of meetings to raise around a third of their working hours to combat illegal immigration. Investigations in cases of economic crime should be set up at least for the rest of the year 2025. So far, the enforcement of immigration laws was generally not a task of the law enforcement authorities of the Ministry of Justice. A spokeswoman for the FBI has not yet been ready to comment on it.
In view of the “improved security situation” in its home country, the US government has lifted the temporary protection status (TPS) for thousands of Afghans in the USA. “The improved security situation in Afghanistan and the stabilizing economy no longer hold them away from returning to their home country,” said US Minister of Homeland Protection Kristi Noem on Monday. The termination of the TPS will come into force on July 12th.
Noem also justified the decision with the alleged danger that some of the Afghans living under protection status in the United States. “There are (TPS) recipients against which fraud and threats of public and national security are investigated.” According to the non -profit organization Afghanevac, around 11,000 Afghans currently live on the TPS in the USA.
