Soleimani’s Niece and Grand-Niece to Be Deported

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Amazing but true: the niece and grand-niece of that arch-villain and war criminal Qassem Soleimani, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander whom the Americans assassinated in 2020 while he was traveling on the Airport Road in Baghdad, are alive and well and until just now were living in Los Angeles. And they’ve been spending a lot of the money their uncle appropriated from the Iranian Treasury and gave to them. Now their luck has run out, and they are about to be deported. More on their saga can be found here: “US agents arrest niece, grand niece of Iran’s Qasem Soleimani after Rubio revoked green cards,” Jerusalem Post, April 4, 2026:

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.

Photo: Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, Facebook.