U.S. set to deport family of Iranian propagandist "Screaming Mary"

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The United States has revoked the greenish cards and detained the household of the Iranian regime propagandist known arsenic "Screaming Mary," the State Department said connected Saturday.

Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi and their lad person been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement up of their deportation, the section said successful a statement. Hashemi and his woman some worked arsenic professors astatine The Chicago School successful Los Angeles.

Hashemi is the lad of Masoumeh Ebtekar, a person successful Iran who archetypal came to the attraction of the satellite arsenic the spokeswoman for the radical of students who stormed the U.S. Embassy successful Tehran successful 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for implicit a year.

Ebtekar rapidly roseate done the governmental ranks, adjacent serving arsenic a vice president for women and household affairs from 2017 to 2021. She besides doubly led the country's Department of Environment.

"Her household should ne'er person been allowed to payment from the bonzer privilege of surviving successful our country," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said connected X. "America tin ne'er go location for anti-American terrorists oregon their families — and nether the Trump Administration, it ne'er will."

Hashemi and his household came to the U.S. connected a visa issued successful 2014, according to the State Department. They were granted lawful imperishable nonmigratory presumption successful 2016 via the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, an inaugural ended by the Trump medication successful December 2025.

President Trump had called for Congress to extremity the visa program during his archetypal medication successful 2017, pursuing the panic attack by Sayfullo Saipov, who entered the U.S. aft being approved done the lottery. Saipov was sentenced to beingness successful situation for a motortruck onslaught that killed 8 radical connected Halloween successful 2017.

Instead of Congress taking action, Mr. Trump himself announced helium was ending the diverseness lottery successful April 2020. That prohibition was struck down by a national justice successful September 2020. Mr. Trump past reissued the prohibition connected the diverseness lottery successful December 2025.

The household of Ebtekar is the latest of respective families with ties to Iran deported by the Trump administration during caller weeks.

The niece and grand-niece of the deceased Iranian Revolutionary Guard Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani was arrested earlier this month aft their lawful U.S. imperishable nonmigratory presumption was terminated. Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her girl were surviving successful Los Angeles astatine the clip they were taken into custody by ICE.

"As identified by some property reporting and her ain societal media commentary, Soleimani Afshar is an outspoken protagonist of the totalitarian, violent authorities successful Iran," the U.S. State Department said successful a statement.

The 2 stay successful ICE custody, the State Department said connected Saturday successful the aforesaid merchandise announcing Ebteker's household had been arrested.

Qasem Soleimani was killed successful a drone strike during the archetypal Trump administration.

The State Department besides terminated the ineligible presumption of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, the girl of erstwhile Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran Ali Larijani, and her husband. They are nary longer successful the United States, officials said.

Vice President JD Vance, on with peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and Mr. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, arrived successful the Pakistani superior of Islamabad aboriginal Saturday for high-stakes talks implicit the warfare successful Iran amid a fragile two-week truce. The apical point connected the docket volition beryllium opening the Strait of Hormuz to let lipid tankers done the cardinal waterway presently blocked by Iran.

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