Seven Iranian nationals linked to the regime in Tehran – including five The Post previously revealed were living lavish lifestyles in Los Angeles – have been targeted for removal from the US as part of a sweeping State Department crackdown.
Among the most prominent cases is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as “Screaming Mary,” who served as a spokesperson for militants involved in the 1979 US Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran.
ICE agents detained her son, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, along with his wife and child this week after The Post reported on their lifestyle in Los Angeles.
Family members initially reported him missing before authorities later confirmed he had been taken into custody.
Just a week earlier, two other Iranians with ties to slain general Qasem Soleimani were also detained.
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, and her daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, had their green cards revoked on April 3. Afshar is Soleimani’s niece, while Hosseiny is his grandniece.
Afshar had expressed support for the Iranian regime in public posts, including praise for its leadership and rhetoric critical of the United States.
In a separate case, Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani – the daughter of a senior Iranian official – and her husband, Seyed Kalantar Motamedi, were also removed from the country amid mounting political pressure. --->READ MORE HERE
The family of Seyed Eissa Hashemi thought her husband had been “kidnapped” when he vanished from their Los Angeles County home Thursday and even called the police – before ICE agents returned to take them both into custody.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio withdrew the green cards for the son of ”Screaming Mary” Masoumeh Ebtekar, as well as his wife, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their young son just week after the arrest of the niece and grandniece of the late Iranian terrorist mastermind, Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
The family were arrested just days after The Post identified them living in luxury in Agoura Hills apartment ”The Avalon” on Monday.
Hashemi, an adjunct associate professor teaching at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, had refused to denounce his notorious mother when approached after a gym workout.
He had graduated from the University of Tehran in 2006 before moving to the US in 2010 to finish his PH.D in organizational leadership from The Chicago School.
Neighbors Saturday said they had no idea of the family’s connection to the Iranian regime, and didn’t even know what country they were from.
”They were panicking because they thought he’d been kidnapped,” Neighbor Natalie told The Post about the aftermath of his arrest on Thursday.
Hashemi had left his keys but still had his phone, allowing his family to track him, neighbors said.
“They said our father disappeared and that somebody basically came and picked him up grabbed him”
ICE later picked up Hashemi’s wife and son, although the details are unclear.
Hashemi’s mother, Ebtekar, “crafted propaganda falsely showing the humane treatment of the hostages, arranging staged interviews in which the American hostages were pressured to describe their treatment in positive terms – even as they were being held in solitary confinement, blindfolded and starved, and subjected to physical and psychological terror, including beatings and mock executions,” according to the State Department.
The State Department said the family’s right to live in the country was revoked in a bid to “never allow America to become a home for foreign nationals tied to anti-American terrorist regimes.”
The decision to cancel the visa follows a long-running campaign by anti-Iranian activists. --->READ MORE HERE
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