Secretary of State Marco Rubio has yanked the green cards of three more Iranian nationals tied to Tehran who were living it up in the US – a week after the arrest of the niece and grandniece of the late Iranian terror mastermind, Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
ICE agents nabbed Seyed Eissa Hashemi, his psychology professor wife, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son this week as federal officials plan to remove them from the US, citing their connections to a notorious figure from the Iran hostage crisis, the State Department announced Saturday.
Eissa Hashemi, 43, is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as “Screaming Mary” for her role as the twisted propaganda mouthpiece for terrorists who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. The Post reported last week that Hashemi has been living the good life in Los Angeles.
ICE agents arrested Seyed Eissa Hashemi (above), Maryam Tahmasebi and their son for removal this week, citing their connections to a notorious figure from the Iran hostage crisis. CA Post
Eissa Hashemi, 43, is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as “Screaming Mary” for her role as the mouthpiece for militants who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. REUTERSEbtekar “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.
Maryam Tahmasebi on Monday before her arrest by ICE
The mouthpiece married a hostage taker and took on senior roles with the post-1979 Islamic regime, current members of which were engaged in talks with the US in Pakistan Saturday to bring an end to the Iran war.
Hashemi is currently an adjunct associate professor teaching at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
He graduated from the University of Tehran in 2006 then reportedly moved to the US in 2010 and pursued his PhD in organizational leadership from The Chicago School.
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, the niece of the terror mastermind and former Quds Force leader Soleimani, was being held in an ICE detention center in Texas following her arrest at her California home April 3.
Soleimani’s grandnice, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, had been flaunting her luxe LA lifestyle and glam outfitson her social media accounts.
Seyed Eissa Hashemi, 43, is now in custody facing deportation.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has yanked the green cards of three more Iranian nationals tied to Tehran who were living it up in the US. REUTERSThe US government also ended the legal status of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, daughter of top Iranian security official Ali Larijani, who was killed in the US-Israel attack last month.
Fatemeh and her husband Seyed Kalantar Motamedi “are no longer in the United States and are barred from future entry,” according to the State Department.
