Muslim Americans and advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after President Joe Biden reversed the travel ban, which has separated thousands of families since it was issued under former President Donald Trump.
Ismail Alghazali has never met his 5-month-old daughter.
"I live in darkness, and my family is my only light," said Alghazali, a Yemeni American who works at a Brooklyn bodega and has not seen his wife and two young children in more than a year.
A year after the United States' withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, analysts say Iran is taking retaliatory steps to show that the U.S. economic war on the country will not be cost-free and to gain leverage for any new negotiations between it and the Trump administration.
A review of how President Trump has fared in the Mideast is mixed at best as even the relative successes are short-term and are attached to a long-term cost to American interests.
