In August 2026 the National Iranian American Council obtained 285 pages of ICE emails about the deportation flights to Iran, and The Intercept published them. They were released as scanned images with no text layer, which means that until now nobody could search them — not on DocumentCloud, not through a search engine, not by reading. This page is the same document run through character recognition so that it can be.
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The text here is not the document. The document is 285 page images, and they remain on DocumentCloud, where they were published. Every result on this page links to its page there. If something matters, read the image — that is the record, and this is only an index into it.
The recognition is imperfect and has been left that way. It reads “Oatari” for “Qatari” and “taif” for “tail” in places, and email headers come through as rubble. Correcting it by hand would put our edits where readers expect the government’s words, so nothing has been fixed. If a search comes back empty, try a shorter or partial term.
Redactions are redactions. Everything blacked out in the release is blacked out here; character recognition cannot see through ink. What it does reveal is where the redaction was applied unevenly — the same categories withheld on one page and left standing on another. Searching (b)(7)(E) shows how often the aircraft details in particular were withheld.
Nothing identifying a deportee is in the release. The passenger manifest appears only as a reference to a password-protected attachment that was not included.
The search runs entirely in your browser. The document is fetched once and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
What this release helped establish is set out on the Iran flights page, including the landing permit on page 168 that names the operator and aircraft for the leg into Tehran.