Khaberni - The US administration has canceled the green cards for more Iranian residents who are relatives of current or former officials in Tehran, as announced by the US State Department today, Saturday.
The department clarified that the decision affected Sayyid Issa Hashemi, a psychology professor in Los Angeles, alongside his wife and son. All of them are legal residents of the United States and were born in Iran.
The department added, in a statement issued simultaneously with ongoing talks in Pakistan on ending the war, that immigration authorities detained the three, and that they are on their way to being deported.
According to the statement, Hashemi is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, who was the spokesperson for the group of attackers who stormed the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, and later became the Vice President of Iran, becoming the first woman to hold this position in Iran.
Previous Actions Against Relatives of Soleimani
This decision came just one week after the US State Department canceled the green cards of the niece of Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who was killed in an American airstrike in Baghdad in 2020, as well as her daughter.
