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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Iranian Jewish Refugees May Find Haven in U.S.
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Two Iranian Jewish
brothers ordered deported
from the U.S., may be ad-
mitted legally as refugees
after following a procedure
outlined in an agreement
reached last weekend with
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David Pollock, assistant
director of the Jewish
Community Relations
Council (JCRC) of New
York, said that the three-
phase agreement was
worked out in discussions
between the brothers' at-
torney, Leon Wilder, and
U.S. officials under the
aegis of Federal Judge Leo
Glasser whose restraining
order a week ago halted INS
attempts to deport the
brothers to Spain, a country
which refused to admit
them.
The
two brothers,
Faramaz and Behrooz
Sedgh, 23, have agreed to
leave the U.S. for Vienna
under an Order of Exclu-
sion, which they will not
contest. Once in Vienna,
they may file immediately
for admission to the U.S. as
refugees.
The government has
waived the one-year
waiting period normally
required in such cases,
Pollock said, and their
application for refugee
status will not be prej-
udiced by the earlier
problems with their
passports.
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The brothers were ar-
rested on Jan. 22 for enter-
ing the U.S. with false
passports, their only means
of escape from Iran. Pollock
said that as part of the
agreement, they will fur-
nish U.S. authorities, with
information about how they
obtained the passports, "to
the best of their knowl-
edge." This will be done be-
fore they depart for Vienna.
Pollock said that, accord- the law forbids anyone
ing to Wilder, once the for- under an exclusion order
malities are over, the U.S. from doing so within the
will approve the applica- U.S.
tion. He said a government
Pollock explained that
official indicated there was Vienna was selected as the
no reason why this should
site for the formalities be-
not be the case and esti- cause the Rav Tov organiza-
mated that the brothers' tion which is sponsoring the
stay in Vienna will be no
Sedgh brothers has
longer than three-four facilities there. He said Ray
weeks.
Tov is an organization of
The date of their depar- Satmar hasidim which
ture for Vienna will depend helps Jews escape from
on the response of the Aust- Iran, the Soviet Union and
rian government. If the Au-
countries of distress in east-
strian authorities do not ern Europe. '
signify in writing by Nov.
Meanwhile, according to
11 that the brothers will be
Pollock, Ackerman has
admitted, Judge Glasser called, for a Congressional
can order their release from hearing to investigate the
INS custody as parolees,
INS action in this and simi-
Pollock said.
lar cases. The Sedgh
He said the agreement brothers were placed on a
was made possible flight to Spain on Oct. 20
through the intervention even though the INS had
been informed by the
of three New York Con-
gressmen, Gary Acker- Spanish authorities that
man, a Democrat, and they would not be admitted.
They were flown back to
Hamilton Fish and Ben-'
jamin Gilman, both Re- New York on" Oct. 21, only to
publicans, who discussed 136 placed on another flight
the case with INS, State to Spain the next day. They
Department and Justice were returned to New York
on Oct. 23 after being flown
Department officials. The
brothers must go to a across the Atlantic four
foreign country to seek times and were about to be
refugee status because placed on yet another flight
to Spain when Judge Glas-
ser's restraining order
halted their odyssey.
The INS had selected
Spain z5because it was
their last departure point
before the brothers
reached the U.S. 10
months ago.
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The brothers were taken
from Kennedy Airport last
Sunday to the INS deten-
tion center at the old Brook-
lyn Navy yard from where
they were inexplicably
transferred to the Manhat-
tan Correctional Center, a
federal jail. According to
Pollock they have since
then been transferred back
to the INS deterntion cen-
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TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
When asked if Palestinian
terrorism will force Israel
out of Judea and Samaria
just as the Jewish under-
ground forced the British
out of Israel, former Israel
Chief of Staff Raphael Eitan
replied:
"The British did not leave
Palestine because of the
Hagana, the Irgun or the
Stern group."
Eitan said the Jewish
forces were a minor irrita-
tion. He said the major rea-
son the British left because
of Russian propaganda
against British imperialism
and the weakness of Britain
after World War
Jewish Artisans
Guild Formed
NEW YORK — The Mar-
tin Steinberg Center of the
American Jewish Congress
has formed a national
Jewish artisans guild to as-
sist Jewish craftpersons and
artists around the country.
The guild's activities in-
clude the sponsoring of
crafts exhibitions, a
speaker's bureau, sales
catalogues, and regular
meetings in various cities.