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Caught Up In Travel Ban, Iranian Lesbian Asylum Seeker Sees 'No Way Forward'

The woman says she fled to Iraq a couple of years ago, after facing harassment in Iran. As she's awaited approval to travel to the U.S., she says she's also faced threats in Iraq.
The Iranian woman fled to Iraq after facing harassment in Iran. "I was hoping so much that I could get my flight to America before the crackdown resumed," she says. "So far, there's no way forward for me, I'm stuck."

President Trump's revised travel ban – which suspends visas from six predominantly Muslim countries and suspends refugee admittances – goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. March 16. It covers citizens of Somalia, Sudan, Iran, Yemen, Syria and Libya and has been denounced by more than 130 foreign policy experts.

Iraq, included in the original ban Trump announced, is no longer on the list of affected countries. But the new order is

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