Trump's refugee ban is keeping out 700 persecuted Iranian Jews

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-845061

Trump had said during his presidential campaign that he would end refugee resettlement on day one, so the executive order didn’t come as a surprise for HIAS. 

“We knew this was coming, so we tried very hard to promote exceptions, particularly for Iranian religious minorities,” Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS, said in an interview, recalling the period preceding Trump’s inauguration. “We tried it through every channel we could. We reached out to people who had good relationships with the Trump team.”