{"id":42588,"date":"2026-04-06T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=42588"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:09:11","slug":"dhs-arrests-niece-and-grand-niece-of-notorious-iranian-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=42588","title":{"rendered":"DHS Arrests Niece and Grand Niece of Notorious Iranian General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Iranian terror mastermind Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani\u2019s niece \u2014 who showcased her lavish Los Angeles lifestyle on social media while bashing the U.S. as the \u201cGreat Satan\u201d \u2014 was arrested by federal authorities over the weekend and will be removed from the U.S. with no chance of ever returning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">Arrested along with Soleimani niece, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, and subjected to the removal order was her 25-year-old daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<p>Announcement of the federal action was made Saturday by the U.S. State Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which dispatched Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents to make the arrests in and around Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2040776543400550679\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/2040776543400550679\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2026\/04\/secretary-rubio-revokes-green-cards-of-foreign-nationals-with-ties-to-iranian-terror-regime\/\">statement<\/a> from the State Department:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While living in the United States, [Ashtar] 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 \u201cGreat Satan,\u201d and voiced her unflinching support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated terror organization. Afshar Soleimani pushed this propaganda for Iran\u2019s terrorist regime while enjoying a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles, as attested to by her frequent posting on her recently deleted Instagram account.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis week, I terminated both Afshar and her daughter\u2019s legal status and they are now in ICE custody, pending removal from the United States,\u201d Secretary of State Marco Rubio also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecRubio\/status\/2040454251260809340?s=20\">announced<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cThe Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes,\u201d Rubio added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<p>Ashtar\u2019s husband was also barred from entering the U.S., according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The mother and daughter\u2019s lifestyle appears striking in light of the Iranian theocratic regime\u2019s strict guidelines for women, requiring them to be modest and their bodies covered in public.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>California Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/us-news\/ice-arrests-niece-grandniece-of-slain-notorious-iranian-gen-soleimani-in-los-angeles\/\">obtained<\/a> Instagram images of the mother and her daughter before their accounts were deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Ashtar is shown dressed in a stylish bandana and leopard-patterned top as well as an attractive sheepskin coat while shooting a handgun and an AR-15 rifle at a Los Angeles-area firearm range. Another shows her sitting in a vehicle and revealing her long legs with heels and a hiked-up miniskirt.<\/p>\n<p>Daughter Hossenly\u2019s Instagram account also appears completely at odds with the strict Shia requirements of the regime her mother espoused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">The attractive 25-year-old appears as the quintessential, upscale Los Angeles catch, sitting in a black spaghetti-strap top with a well-groomed Pomeranian dog on her lap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a9d adSo\"\/>\n<p>She is also captured in designer couture in various locations, including in one photo the <em>Post<\/em> called a \u201cbikini-clad babe showing off stomach tattoos and lounging on a jetski in barely-there swimsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other shots, both pose in chic garb with helicopters, as if they\u2019re about to avoid the notorious Los Angeles traffic with a personal chopper.<\/p>\n<p>Afshar, 47, entered the U.S. in 2015 on a tourist visa, was granted asylum in 2019 by a judge, and then secured a green card in 2021 from the Biden administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DHSgov\/status\/2040532723354222690?s=20\">according<\/a> to Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite having the earlier \u201casylum\u201d designation Afshar made at least four trips back to Iran, according to the department, which stated \u201cher trips to Iran illustrate her asylum claims were fraudulent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hosseiny, 25, entered the in 2015 on a student visa, was granted asylum in 2019 by a judge, and received a green card in 2023, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">\u201cIt is a privilege to be granted a green card to live in the United States of America,\u201d DHS spokesman told the <em>Post<\/em>. \u201cIf we have reason to believe a green card holder poses a threat to the US, the green card will be revoked.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a9d adSo\"\/>\n<p>Afshar was spotted by the<em> Post<\/em> Saturday outside her two bedroom in the Los Angeles suburb of Tujunga, \u201chastily stuffing designer handbags from Louis Vuitton and Hermes into her Model 3 Tesla sedan hours after her arrest was publicly announced,\u201d the tabloid reported.<\/p>\n<p>OCE reportedly arrested Afshar\u2019s daughter, who goes by the name \u201cSarina,\u201d while driving with her boyfriend near her home in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump near the end of his first term ordered the fatal drone strike on Afshar\u2019s uncle Major General Soleimani near the Bagdad airport on January 3, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The president claimed Soleimani \u2014 whom he often calls the \u201cfather of the roadside bomb\u201d that killed or maimed soldiers in the Iraq conflict \u2014 was planning attacks on American diplomats and soldiers in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation of Afshar and her daughter\u2019s legal status is the<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/us-news\/daughter-of-top-iranian-official-ousted-from-emory-university-after-outcry-has-visa-canceled\/\"> second<\/a> such removal this week by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>A physician and faculty member at Emory University in Atlanta, the daughter of a top Iranian official killed last month in an Israeli air strike, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2026\/04\/05\/physician-daughter-of-brutal-iranian-official-killed-in-airstrike-booted-from-the-u-s\/\">ordered<\/a> to leave the U.S. with her husband and barred from ever returning.<\/p>\n<p>It followed revocation of her legal status in part prompted by protests in January that \u201cthe daughter of a terrorist\u201d was working in the school\u2019s cancer research hospital.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributor Lowell Cauffiel is the author of the New York Times true crime best seller\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Secrets-Reprint-Cauffiel-Lowell-Paperback\/dp\/B011MDQYL2\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1DOGXA6UY8LGP&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pHQ8Hkch5URUQIxhveyYhmDARWVLwDTA8YQGS_FX7-o.xxMgqOgpCwVK9NfLehpvYQS96akPDuPFYyOUe8DF6hM&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=House+of+Secrets+Lowell+Cauffiel+paperback&amp;qid=1749914839&amp;sprefix=house+of+secrets+lowell+cauffiel+paperback%2Caps%2C136&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>House of Secrets\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>and nine other crime novels and nonfiction titles. 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