Drood!

Sorry for the stupid wall of text. Please delete if not appropriate. 🙏

I hope someone in the same boat as me can help me here. I want to go back to the US. I also have family in the US whom I have never visited and would love to see. But, Trumps policies have me sitting nervous here. I’m a woman in her late 20’s, my family fleed Iran in the early 90’s when I was just a child so I was never issued a passport of my own. I was on my mom’s passport at the time of fleeing. We got citizenship in France pretty fast and I have a French passport. I have never been back to Iran due to political reasons with a close family member being arrested and… the sht with IRGC etc. anyway.

In 2023, I visited LA with an approved ESTA. I declared that I had never been to Iran (since whatever year that was on the ESTA forum) and also that I have never had an Iranian citizenship/passport. Since then, I’ve come to find out that I am actually an automatic citizen of Iran because of my Iranian father. 🫪damn I guess I was stupid.

What should I do here? should I just apply to a new ESTA and declare the same as above? or should I go to the US embassy and apply for a tourist visa instead and declare that I am indeed a citizen of Iran but has never had a passport/been back since 1993?

If anyone is in the same boat as me I hope you can help me.

Thanks for reading!

Tajikistan was part of the USSR. Do we know if Moscow used them as translators? Or if they were used more than people from other backgrounds? Or did the Soviets deploy less of them out of fear they might defect? Or were Tajiks treated the same as Russians Ukraianians Khazaks ect?

That is the one advantage the Russians had over Nato in Afghanistan. They had millions of translators on hand. No one ever seems to comment on it.

Interested to see what country you guys feel the most and least welcome in, in consideration of your Iranian identity. So we don’t base all our opinions from the internet but actually from people who have been to these places

Hello everybody.I'm looking for more information about the language in this video. I know it's labeled as "Domari," but honestly, having had the chance to listen to Domari before, this really doesn't sound anything like it . I fear that whoever uploaded the video just labeled it as Domari because the language may belong to a group of people relatively similar to the Dom. But, as I already said it doesn't really sound like Domari to me. To my untrained ears, it sounds a lot like Farsi. Can any Farsi speakers here confirm that? And in general, is there anyone here who knows more about this language?

My mom claims she fed her childhood cats ghormeh sabzi and they were fine, but isn’t onion super toxic to cats? Has anyone fed their cats polo khoresht?

(Regardless of the answer I’m keeping my cats away from any alliums, I’m mostly just curious if cats in Iran are built different or something lol)

Thank you