Slain Iranian navy chief Soleimani’s niece, her daughter arrested by ICE, had been ‘living lavish lifestyle in LA’

Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter, who was not named, had been arrested on Friday by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an announcement stated, including that Afshar’s husband has additionally been banned from getting into the United States. They are actually to be deported, officers instructed information company AP. The two others who had been additionally focused this week weren’t instantly named.

The steps observe a transfer late final yr during which the visas of a number of diplomats and staffers at Iran’s mission to the United Nations had been additionally revoked.

She is “an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the ‘Great Satan’,” Rubio said in a post on X.

“The Trump administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes,” he added.

The Iranian mission to the UN had made no comment as of Saturday. Iran has no formal diplomatic relations with the US.

Afshar and her daughter are just the latest Iranians to have their legal status in the US rescinded.

Donald Trump’s regime recently revoked the visas of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, an academic and the daughter of Iran’s former national security adviser Ali Larijani who was killed in a US-Israel airstrike last month.

Her husband, Seyed Kalantar Motamedi, also had his visa revoked, the State Department said. Neither are still in the US, though it’s not clear where they are.

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.