Airlines block Iranians from US-bound flights

‘A controversial travel ban recently approved by US President Donald Trump against Iranians – as well as six other Muslim nations – has already trapped travelers at airports.
Reports are emerging that airlines are refusing to allow US-bound passengers of target countries from boarding planes. This has at least in one instance left three Iranian nationals stranded at Vienna airport for several nights.
The domestic media in Vienna reported that the Iranians – a young woman and an elderly couple – had to spend two nights on the benches in the transit area of the airport.
Peter Their, a spokesman for Austrian Airlines, was quoted by media as saying that the Iranians had arrived from the Iranian central city of Isfahan on Saturday “and only learned in Vienna from the security officials that they cannot continue to the US”.’
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