TEHRAN – A Louisiana magistrate judge ordered the immediate release of Iranian doctoral candidate Porhosain Henderbad on Monday, except that U.S. authorities under the Iranian regime were deported after he arrested him during the Israeli regime’s US support war.
Judge Joseph HL Perez Montez of the Western District of Louisiana ruled that the 29-year-old LSU scholar must be released from detention and granted the right to remain in the United States.
Pourhossein-Hendabad, whose valid F-1 visa was extended until 2030, was in custody at the Louisiana Central Ice Processing Center, along with his wife Parisa Firouzabadi, from June 22nd.
The academic’s sudden, unfounded arrest occurred shortly after Washington’s June 21 strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
The court filing reveals that ice agents used “unconstitutional tricks” to detain Pohhossein Henderbad and his wife.
After the couple reported a hit-and-run accident that damaged the car, state police arrived at Baton Rouge apartment, which they claimed to investigate the crash. Instead, the police led them downstairs. There, masked ice agents in full tactical equipment were waiting for them to arrest them.
Government lawyers did not present any objections to these claims.
The Pourhossein-Hendabad case represents a systematic US campaign aimed at Iranian citizens.
ICE Director Todd Lyons has selected Iranians among countries where the June 4th presidential travel ban was banned, while explicitly prioritizing “target enforcement” against citizens from what he called “high-risk countries, including Iran.”
In June alone, ICE detained 670 Iranians nationwide in a week, and there was a brutal attack on a home marked with cruelty, including a federal officer securing a Los Angeles woman to the ground when she suffered a panic attack.
Iran has repeatedly denounced Washington’s “humiliation” and “racist” measures.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei has vowed to “take all measures” to protect foreign citizens, and has directed a global diplomatic mission to support detainees.
The court’s ban on relocating Pourhossein-Hendabad shows a judicial pushback against administrative overreach.
But as Trump’s ice rejects the bond hearing for detained immigrants, the ruling remains a rare rest in the escalating climate of Iranian phobia.