“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar who is also a hypocrite,” wrote American playwright Tennessee Williams.
I thought of Williams’ scathing quote when news broke this weekend that two Iranian women, 47-year-old Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Sarina Sadat Hosseiny, 25, had been arrested by US immigration officials in Los Angeles.
The niece and grand-niece of the notorious Major Gen. Qassem Soleimani, slain head of the Quds Force, had been living luxe lives in Los Angeles.
And the hypocrisy does not end there.
While the Islamic Republic is killing its women for the “sin” of showing a strand of hair, Afshar and Hosseiny have used their social-media accounts, stocked with lavishly staged photos of themselves in barely-there outfits, to heap praise on Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and the regime’s terror activities.
“The Trump administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he revoked their permanent-resident status.
But it’s not the first time the Islamic regime — which demands piety and strict observance of antiquated Islamic values from Iranians — has been caught allowing the children of its elite unfettered display of skin and “sin.”
And Iranians who have been paying the price of this duplicity for almost five decades are at the breaking point.
Just this past October, the regime had to manage another uproar when videos surfaced of a bride in plunging gown and flowing hair being escorted by her father through throngs of unveiled guests in a luxury hotel in Tehran.
The bride was the daughter of Ali Shamkhani, senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — a man who had a key role in crushing the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and who amassed a fortune smuggling sanctioned goods into Iran. --->READ MORE HERE
The glitzy LA-based niece of slain Iranian terror mastermind Qasem Soleimani used her social media to spread the regime’s wartime propaganda against the US and back Tehran’s threats against Iranian expats branded “traitors” before her Friday arrest by ICE agents.
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, didn’t just repost regime messaging — she echoed it in her own words, cheering a crackdown on dissidents and amplifying wartime narratives boosting Tehran’s battlefield performance.
In vulgar posts, Afshar called the US the “Great Satan” and celebrated attacks against American soldiers stationed in the Middle East, according to the State Department.
“Taking war reparations from the scum who sold out their homeland is very satisfying 😂 … Now, go chase after your money and assets,” she wrote in one Instagram story obtained by The Post that was translated from its original Farsi.
Hours earlier, she circulated a wartime claim about Iran’s strength against US forces.
“American officials have told the New York Times that Iran is responding more effectively than the Trump administration expected, and has demonstrated a stronger military capability,” she wrote in another Farsi-language post.
Afshar also backed escalating threats from Tehran targeting Iranians abroad — including warnings of asset seizures and even execution — while mocking critics and defending the regime’s stance.
“Do they still dare to make such claims? … Of course, by ‘immigrants’ they mean those whose hands are stained with the blood of the people. They mean the homeland-sellers,” she wrote.
In between the propaganda posts, Afshar shared pics of her lavish lifestyle in LA as well as herself in skimpy couture outfits that would be illegal in the Islamic Republic, where women have been arrested and beaten to death for not wearing head coverings. --->READ MORE HERE
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