US revokes green cards of more Iranian-born relatives of current and former regime officials

The Trump administration has revoked the green cards of more long-term Iranian residents of the United States who are related to current or former senior Iranian officials.

The State Department says it has taken action against Seyed Eissa Hashemi, a Los Angeles-area psychology teacher, his wife and son, all of whom are Iranian-born lawful permanent residents of the US.

The department says in a statement released as talks to end the war with Iran are getting underway in Pakistan, that they were taken into custody by immigration authorities and are slated for deportation.

Hashemi, it says, is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, who served as a spokeswoman for the attackers who took over the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and was later promoted to be Iran’s first female vice president.

Just last week, the State Department revoked the green cards of the niece and grand-niece of former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad in early 2020.