Yousof Azizi: The Iranian-American scholar pressured by the FBI to return to Iran

Yousof Azizi: The Iranian-American scholar pressured by the FBI to return to Iran Submitted by Amara Sophia Elahi on Thu, 10/01/2026 - 09:19 The political commentator is one of several Iranians whose repatriation may have been coordinated with an ICE official based in Israel Yousof Azizi was detained for three months before requesting voluntary departure from the US to Iran (supplied/MEE) Off Monday 13 April started as a normal day for Yousof Azizi, a PhD student at Virginia Tech University in America. In the morni