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| Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, Facebook |
Robert Spencer : US federal agents have arrested the niece and grand-niece
of late Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani after Secretary of
State Marco Rubio revoked their lawful permanent resident status, the
State Department said on Saturday.
“Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” the State Department said in a
statement after Rubio revoked their green cards.
The State Department noted that while the pair were living in the US,
Afshar “promoted Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against
American soldiers and military facilities in the Middle East, praised
the new Iranian Supreme Leader, denounced America as the ‘Great Satan,’
and voiced her unflinching support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps, a designated terror organization.”
So Hamideh Soleimani Afshar felt so secure with her green card that,
far from keeping quiet so as not to attract unwelcome attention, she
spouted Iranian Islamic regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against
American soldiers and military facilities, declared her undying support
for the IRGC that the American government has designated as a terror
organization, and called America, where she wanted to live, the “Great
Satan.”
The statement noted that Afshar did all of this while
living a life of luxury in Los Angeles, as evidenced by posts on her
Instagram account, which has since been deleted.
She supports the IRGC wholeheartedly, that group of cutthroats her
uncle headed before his timely demise, a sinister armed force well known
for its torture and murder of Iranian protesters. But she has been
doing her cheerleading from Los Angeles, far from the police state she
wants to survive, as long as she herself need not endure it.
And as a
pampered child of the corrupt Iranian nomenklatura, she has plenty of
money from her doting uncle, but it can’t be as easily spent in Iran,
where her lavish living would raise eyebrows among ordinary Iranians.
So
she somehow managed under the Biden administration to be admitted to
the United States, where she is able to buy and enjoy, far from the
prying eyes of her fellow Iranians, her Hermès foulards and Chanel
perfumes and Elie Saab gowns and Birkin bags, and suchlike luxe found in
high-end shops along Rodeo Drive.
How was it that she was admitted to the United States in the first
place? Surely the name “Soleimani” on an Iranian passport should have
set off alarm bells. What was the reason they were both given green
cards? Did they claim they were being persecuted in Iran? It shouldn’t
have been hard for well-trained immigration officers to ferret out the
truth. Wasn’t a Persian-speaking officer available to interrogate her?
Or were those immigration officers — let’s get their names, please —
simply asleep at the wheel?
And how long have they been in this country, the niece and
grand-niece of Qasem Soleimani who are freely spouting Iranian regime
propaganda and declaring their undying support for the Islamic Republic?
There are 140,000 Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles County, and at least
500,000 in Southern California. Did none of those people, able to read
her online posts in Persian, think that she should be reported to the
authorities? Of course, in the Biden administration, no one would have
paid much attention. They were not interested in “punishing innocent
relatives” of Iranian officials.
The State Department under Marco Rubio has been going aggressively
after relatives of Islamic Republic leaders now living in this country,
determined to strip them of their green cards and to promptly deport
them.
These relatives of Islamic Republic big shots know, despite their
claims of admiration and support for the Islamic Republic, that they can
only be happy in the Great Satan, whose freedoms they enjoy even while
they try to undermine the country, our country, that in a fit of
absentmindedness let them in. And of course, it’s far better to spend
the money their corrupt relatives gave them out of sight of starving
Iranians. These hideous people should never have been admitted in the
first place, but now justice will be done.
They will be located,
arrested, and quickly deported. The daughter of the slain Iranian leader
Ali Larijani and her husband are already home, and Soleimani’s niece
and grand-niece will within days be sent packing to Tehran. The
criminals who run Iran should learn that not only they, but all of their
relatives will be kept out of the United States, the “Great Satan” they
are so eager to live in. Sorry, says Marco Rubio, our splendid
Secretary of State. No can do.
