- On March 31, 2025, U.S. authorities deported Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a 34-year-old Lebanese kidney specialist and Brown University assistant professor, to Lebanon after finding “sympathetic photos and videos” of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on her phone, discovered in the deleted items folder.
- Alawieh, who held an H-1B visa, was detained at Boston’s Logan International Airport on March 20, 2025, upon returning from Lebanon, where she admitted attending Nasrallah’s funeral.
- Hezbollah, designated a terrorist group by the U.S., is part of the Iran-backed “Axis of Resistance.” Read More
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