ICE arrest Iran warlord’s niece living her ‘best life’ in Los Angeles

The grand-niece of the de@d Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani has been arrested by ICE. 

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Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, and her mother, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar were arrested after their US permanent resident status was revoked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio over ties to the Iranian regime. 

Hosseiny had been living in the US since 2015, when she first entered the country on a student visa, before getting permanent residency during the Biden administration in 2023. 

Despite her family’s ties to the Iranian regime, Hosseiny’s social media presence showed her living a glamorous lifestyle in Los Angeles. 
 

Posts showed her travelling across the US, visiting Miami, Las Vegas and Alaska, as well as laughing and smiling at music festivals. 

Other images showed her aboard private aircraft and yachts and wearing clothes that would be forbidden under Iranian law, including bikinis and miniskirts. 

Her mother had called America the “Great Satan” in social media posts as she lived in California, as well as expressing support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated terror organisation, according to the State Department. 

Both women’s green cards were revoked hours before ICE arrested them in LA on Friday, April 3. 

Soleimani commanded Iran’s elite Quds Force, part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and was the country’s most powerful military figure before he was k!lled in a US drone strike in 2020.

Trump referenced the k!lling again last week, describing Soleimani as “an evil genius” while claiming Iran would have been in a stronger position in the war had he still been alive. 

The arrests form part of a broader crackdown on people with alleged links to Iran. 

Soleimani Afshar first entered the US on a tourist visa in 2015 and was granted asylum in 2019, before receiving a green card in 2021, but the DHS said her asylum claim was fraudulent. 

The IRGC, which Hosseiny’s mother is alleged to have supported, was named as a foreign terrorist organisation by the US in 2019. 

The former commander’s daughter Narjes Soleimani has said the two women “have no connection whatsoever” to her father and accused Washington of fabricating claims.