Kordia was arrested in 2024 during the Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University. The charges against her were dropped the next day, but she was detained in March 2025 by ICE during a routine immigration check-in.
Othman Atta, executive director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, stated, 'This is a man who came to the United States and kind of lived the American dream. And they are trying to tarnish his image. They're trying to target him.'
Pahlavi pledged to lead a transition to a 'free and democratic Iran.' He called on President Trump to continue the American-Israeli military operation against Iran, in the hope of displacing a regime he decried for placing a 'sea of blood' between itself and its people.
Western Sahara is the largest disputed territory in the world, designated by the United Nations as a non-self-governing territory, despite Morocco controlling about 80% of it.
US representative Mike Waltz used his prepared remarks at the meeting to criticise the Iranian government's response to the protests, noting that the ongoing internet blackout in Iran made it hard to verify the true extent of the crackdown by authorities there. The people of Iran are demanding their freedom like never before in the Islamic Republic's brutal history, Waltz said,