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LOS ANGELES () — Three Iranians with ties to the 1979 hostage drama are under arrest in Los Angeles and facing deportation.
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Eissa Seyed Hashemi, his wife Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son Seyed Mobin Hashemi were all taken into ICE custody.
Hashemi and Tahmasebi are both professors. Hashemi is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, an Iranian regime politician who also acted as a spokesperson during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979, according to DHS.
The three became green card holders in the U.S. during the Obama administration after Hashemi entered the country on a student visa two years prior.
“ICE law enforcement officers successfully apprehended all three individuals whose presence in the United States posed a clear threat to our national security and foreign policy,” DHS said.
In a post on social media, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ebtekar, also known as “Screaming Mary,” was the spokeswoman for the Islamic terrorists who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days — subjecting them to beatings, starvation, and mock executions.”
“America can never become home for anti-American terrorists or their families — and under the Trump Administration, it never will,” Rubio wrote.
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The niece and grandniece of the deceased major general were living “lavishly” in Los Angeles but promoted propaganda from the Iranian regime, said Marco Rubio, who revoked their green cards.
Last week, the niece of slain Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major Gen. Qasem Soleimani and her daughter were also arrested by ICE in Los Angeles,
Rubio said Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, the niece of Soleimani, and her daughter were taken into ICE custody in Los Angeles and will be deported back to Iran.
The state department says Soleimani’s niece and grandniece were living a “lavish lifestyle” in Los Angeles, and at least one of them promoted propaganda from the Iranian regime and celebrated attacks on Americans.
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