A Yeshiva University student who fled Iran because of anti-Semitism has won asylum in the United States. The 20-year-old student, whose identity is being kept private for fear that relatives still in Iran would face persecution, recently won political asylum, according to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
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