As the U.S. State Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests another child of an infamous Iranian regime leader, Americans should know that there are numerous regime progeny who have not disavowed their parents or uncles, but yet are living and working in the United States.
The Trump administration has revoked resident status for several relatives of Islamic Iranian regime leaders in recent weeks, with the latest ICE arrests being Eissa Hashemi, a lecturer at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles, and his wife Maryam Tahmasebi. But Hashemi might need psychological help himself, as he defiantly refused to disavow or criticize his mother Masoumeh Ebtekar, pictured above. She served more than one office within the Iranian regime up until 2021, but is best known as “Screaming Mary” for her repeated defenses of jihadis who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for over 400 days. Hashemi is not a weird anomaly of an America-hating Iranian tyrant's child living high in the U.S., though.
I have previously written about ICE arresting Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter. The U.S. State Department revoked their lawful permanent resident (LPR) status. Afshar is the niece of eliminated Iranian mass murderer Qasem Soleimani, and she continued openly to repeat and promote Iranian regime propaganda, despite living a life of luxury in the United States. She also claimed refugee status here and yet returned multiple times to Iran, proving how bogus the refugee claim was.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio likewise revoked legal status for Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, who is the daughter of eliminated Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani. Until recently, Ardeshir-Larijani was teaching at Emory University. The New York Post reported that she is now out of our country. That leads into my main point in this article, which is that we know of at least four other children of Iranian regime bigwigs who are not only living in America, but teaching at U.S. universities.
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The New York Post identified at least six children of Iranian regime officials and clerics who taught at American colleges, including Hashemi and Ardeshir-Larijani. Speaking of Ali Larijani, his niece Zahra Mohaghegh Damad, daughter of politician and Muslim cleric Ayatollah Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, teaches at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering. Zeinab Hajjarian, daughter of Ayatollah Khomeini's advisor Saeed Hajjarian, teaches at University of Massachusetts Lowell as a biomedical engineering professor. Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's daughter Leila teaches math at Union College. And Iranian Parliament member and former minister Ali Nobakht's son Ehsan Nobakht is a medical professor at George Washington University.
Again, I want to emphasize that these individuals have not disavowed their terrorist relatives. This is no parallel to the situation of murderous Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's daughter Alina Fernández Revuelta, who claimed asylum in the U.S. and has vocally criticized her father. No, these children of the Iranian elite, like so many other privileged children of dictators, are interested in benefiting from the capitalist, free society and political system of the United States, without giving up the benefits also attendant upon their relationship with the evil murderers who run Iran.
No doubt the State Department is aware that their work is not done in identifying and investigating the children of Iranian regime leaders living in the United States. They certainly need to direct their attention to the individuals above who not only unjustly benefit from American residency, but are possibly poisoning the minds of young Americans through the universities where they teach.
