Iranian leader’s relatives Hamideh Soleimani Afshar (left), 47, and her daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, had been living a lavish life in the US.
After the State Department revoked the Green Cards of Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Sarinasadat Hosseiny, the niece and the grandniece of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General Qasem Soleimani, the administration is targeting the other elite Iranians living in the US. Katie Miller, the podcaster wife of Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff of the White House, appeared on Fox News and said she was aware that President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were working diligently to revoke the visas of nearly 3,000 to 4,000 Iranian elites who are in the US. Miller also asked why so many elites from the Iranian regime were given safety not only in the US but also in European countries. “The double standard, not only in their wardrobe, but the fact they get to live here in the greatest country in the world, with safety and prosperity, you could not make it up,” Miller said. After the war broke out, Dr Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, whose late father was a top official in Tehran, was removed from Emory University after a massive backlash started asking why she was allowed to continue in her prestigious post of an assistant professor at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta. The most high-profile cases, however, have been the ICE arrests of the mother-daughter duo as their arrests revealed the lavish life they have been leading in Los Angeles. “While living in the United States, she (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. Afshar Soleimani pushed this propaganda for Iran’s terrorist regime while enjoying a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles, as attested to by her frequent posting on her recently deleted Instagram account,” the State Department said. Afshar entered the US on a tourist visa in 2015 and was later granted asylum by an immigration judge in 2019. She became a lawful permanent resident in 2021. But in a 2025 naturalization application, officials say she disclosed multiple trips back to Iran after receiving her green card, which is now a ground for disqualification. Her daughter entered the United States in July 2015 on a student visa. In 2019, a judge granted her asylum. In 2023, she became a Green Card holder.
