Iran's foreign ministry parliamentary director-general has said that 120 Iranian migrants will return from the United States within the next two days, Entekhab reported on September 30.

The surprise returnee deal between the two countries initially leaked in the New York Times, comes as the Trump administration continues to round up immigrants from several countries and return them to their origin countries or third countries. 

Hossein Noushabadi said Iran will provide appropriate consular services to citizens returning home, many of which applied for asylum from Iran in the past few years during the Biden administration.

He said the US immigration service has decided to deport around 400 Iranians currently living in US, "most of whom entered illegally," in line with the new administration's immigration approach.

"In the first step, they decided to deport 120 Iranians who entered America illegally, most of them through Mexico," Noushabadi said.

He confirmed that some of those returning also held residence permits but were included on the deportation list for reasons stated by US immigration authorities. Consent for their return has been obtained from the deportees themselves.

Iran's foreign ministry has pursued the matter through its interests section via the Pakistan embassy and the US interests section in Iran in the Swiss embassy by issuing notes. Tehran requested that Washington show sensitivity towards respecting the rights of Iranian migrants and their citizenship rights.

Iran asked that deportees not be deprived of appropriate consular services, the right to fair trial and principles outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which are derived from international law.

Noushabadi stressed that Iran will host migrants who emigrated to the US for any reason. Those returning are Iranian citizens who left Iran legally, though how they entered America is a separate matter.

"If the rest of the people on their list are to return, Iran will be the host. Of course, we said that all rights recognised for migrants in the international system must be respected," he said.

Coordination has been completed, and the deportees are scheduled to enter Iran through Qatar within the next two days.

The returnees are expected to travel back to Iran via Qatar, with the national airline Qatar Airways playing a key role in transferring people, according to reports from Tehran. 

The US previously deported dozens of Iranians to Central America who refused to be sent back to Iran; their current whereabouts are not known, but they were initially put up in hotels in Panama upon deportation from the US.