In the summer of 2026, a family of Iranian-American permanent residents—a psychology professor, her academic husband, and their teenage son—found themselves detained in separate Texas facilities, their legal status revoked not for anything they had done, but for what the husband's mother did nearly half a century ago during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. The United States government, offering no formal charges and no specific evidence, cited national security while blocking even the family's request to leave voluntarily. The case raises one of the oldest and most unsettling questions in the hum
US detains Iranian-American family over mother-in-law's 1979 hostage crisis role
A family of three permanent US residents—including a teenager and a university professor—have been detained for four months in separate facilities, with documented deterioration of physical and mental health.