A Swiss-based Iranian scientist has arrived in the United States to take up her post at Harvard. The scientist had been stopped from flying there twice by the Trump ban on visitors from some Muslim-majority countries.

Samira Asgari arrived in Boston on Friday evening Swiss time. She made the journey from Frankfurt.

Asgari was welcomed there by a delegation of Harvard colleagues and by lawyers.

The scientist expressed her relief in a tweet.

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