The effects of President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order barring refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – from entering the United States has left one former Texas A&M basketball player stranded in Dubai.

Jones, who played four seasons at A&M and graduated in 2008, joined Iranian basketball club Azad University Tehan of the Iranian Super League last fall.

The team was on a break in Dubai when Trump issued the order, according to the Vertical. Jones was not allowed to return to Iran with his teammates when they left the city due to new restrictions imposed by the Iranian government.

In a response to Trump’s move, Iran has banned United States citizens from entering the country, leaving Jones and fellow American teammate J.P. Prince in limbo.

Iran's Foreign Ministry denounced Trump's anti-immigration verdict as an insult to the whole Islamic world, according to Iran's Tehran Times.

“The United States government's decision to restrict Muslims’ traveling to American, though for a temporary three-month period, is a flagrant insult to the world of Islam and the great Iranian nation, in particular,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Iran's response has left Jones and Prince without a job.

“At the moment they are stranded,” Jones’ agent Eric Fleisher told The Vertical. “It’s a real hardship.”

Jones and Prince still have much of their belongings in Iran, and it is unclear whether they will be able to return to work in the country and play out the remainder of their contracts.

Fleisher said there is “little optimism” that the situation will be positively resolved.

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