The U.S. sent an Iranian Christian to Panama. It had no plan for what came next.

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The U.S. sent an Iranian Christian to Panama. It had no plan for what came next.

One man’s 18 months in the limbo of Trump’s third-country deportations.

Today at 1:00 a.m. EDT

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*Arsalan Saleh Fard, 25, in his room at a shelter. He had fled Iran and sought asylum in the United States, but was deported to Panama. (Luis Antonio Rojas/For The Washington Post)*

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Teo Armus

PANAMA CITY — Two years ago, Arsalan Saleh Fard had never heard of this Latin American metropolis. He would have been lost if asked to identify it on a map. But it is here, at times sleeping on a mattress on the floor, where the Iranian-born Saleh Fard was living a life in limbo.

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