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Analysis #035 Β· July 7, 2026 Β· 2 min read
Politics
A Lawsuit Says the US Hand-Delivered Asylum Seekers' Files to Tehran. Fox Found Room for a Mascot Fight Instead.
Lawsuit filed July 7 in WashingtonAlleged monthly US-Iran meetings since March 2025Files on hundreds of detained IraniansChristian converts, LGBTQ Iranians, protestersICE: allegations are 'false'Owner: Murdoch family
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Here's a story with everything Fox News normally loves: Iran, immigration, persecuted Christians. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington says the US government has been quietly handing Iran's regime the asylum files of the very people who fled it. * The details read like a spy novel with the heroes removed. Starting in March 2025, the lawsuit says, US officials met with Iranian officials every month and shared files on hundreds of detained Iranians -- who they are, who their families are, what they believe, and exactly why they're afraid of Tehran. Some files were mailed. Some, the lawyers say, were hand-delivered. * Who's in those files, according to the complaint? Converts to Christianity. Gay and lesbian Iranians. People who marched in the Women, Life, Freedom protests. In other words: a ready-made arrest list, allegedly gift-wrapped by the government they asked for protection. * ICE calls the allegations "false," and that denial belongs in every version of this story, including ours. A court will sort out who's right. Fine. * But here's our question: where's Fox? NPR ran it. The Washington Post ran it. The AP wire pushed it to local stations across America. Fox News -- the network that covers immigration like a 24-hour weather channel -- had nothing on its front page as of Tuesday evening. * What did make Fox's front page today: a building evacuation in Manhattan, a California high school fighting Gavin Newsom over a mascot, and actor Michael Rapaport walking back his old Trump takes. * Christians persecuted by Iran's regime is about as Fox-core as a story gets. Only one variable changed this time: the paperwork allegedly enabling the persecution has a US government stamp on it.
β€œPersecuted Christians are a Fox News staple -- right up until the persecutor's file arrives with a US government stamp on it.”
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