Niece of senior Iranian official Trump had assassinated in his first time period arrested by ICE after residing ‘lavish lifestyle’ in LA

Two kin of Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian army commander who was killed in a strike ordered by President Donald Trump in 2020, have been arrested by federal brokers.

Soleimani’s niece, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, and her daughter are actually in ICE custody, the State Department announced Saturday. The division’s assertion described Afshar as an “outspoken supporter of the totalitarian, terrorist regime in Iran.”

“Afshar Soleimani pushed this propaganda for Iran’s terrorist regime while enjoying a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles, as attested to by her frequent posting on her recently deleted Instagram account,” the State Department mentioned.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked their lawful everlasting resident standing, and Afshar’s husband can be barred from getting into the nation.

Rubio mentioned Afshar is an “outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the ‘Great Satan.’”

“This week, I terminated both Afshar and her daughter’s legal status and they are now in ICE custody, pending removal from the United States,” he wrote Saturday on X. “The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.”

The Iranian mission to the U.N. had no remark Saturday.

Afshar and her daughter are simply the most recent Iranians to have their authorized standing within the U.S. rescinded by Rubio.

He not too long ago revoked the visas of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, an educational and daughter of Iran’s former nationwide safety adviser Ali Larijani, who was killed in a U.S.-Israel airstrike final month. Her husband, Seyed Kalantar Motamedi, additionally had his visa revoked, the State Department mentioned.

Neither continues to be within the U.S.

In early December, nicely earlier than the surge of anti-government protests in Iran and the beginning of the conflict, the State Department revoked or declined to resume visas of a number of Iranian diplomats, together with the deputy ambassador, and staffers at Iran’s mission to the United Nations.

The division mentioned Friday that motion had been taken on Dec. 4 however declined to remark additional “for privacy and security reasons” besides to notice that it was unrelated to both the protests or the conflict.