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From Post and Courier:
For recent Clemson University graduate Nazanin Zinouri, a trip to see family has turned into a nightmare.
The Greenville resident, who graduated last year with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and won the university's
Janine Anthony Bowen Graduate Fellow award, flew to Tehran to visit her family when she heard about an immigration ban signed by President Donald Trump on Friday. The order bars individuals from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia from entering the United States for 90 days.
Zinouri took to social media on Saturday to share her story.
"On Wednesday, we started hearing rumors about new executive orders that will change immigration rules for some countries including Iran,"
she wrote in a Facebook post. "Before I knew it, it was actually happening. Even though I didn't want to leave my family, I quickly booked a ticket to get on the next flight back."
Zinouri said left Iran a few hours after Trump signed the executive order and flew to Dubai where officials checked her documents.
She was questioned for 40 minutes before boarding a flight to Washington, D.C., according to the post. After she got on the flight, two Transportation Security Administration officers ordered her to disembark.
Zinouri has lived in the United States for almost seven years, according to her post.
"No one warned me when I was leaving, no one cared what will happen to my dog or my job or my life there," she said. "No one told me what I should do with my car that is still parked at the airport parking. Or what to do with my house and all my belongings. They didn't say it with words but with their actions, that my life doesn't matter. Everything I worked for all these years doesn't matter."
The Post and Courier has reached out to Zinouri for comment.
Clemson officials are aware of the situation and are "looking into it," said Robin Denny, a university spokeswoman. No further comment was immediately available.