The White House says it is “reviewing’’ the immigration situation of Iranians who gained benefits under the Biden administration — as The Post revealed viral online petitions are demanding the US ouster of kin of Iran’s ruling elite.
More than 41,000 people have already signed a Change.org petition urging President Trump to deport Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, the daughter of a powerful Iranian official who currently serves as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.
The woman’s father, Ali Larijani, recently spewed on social media that Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were “the main killers of the people of Iran’’ — even as the dictatorship that Larijani works for has slain an estimated thousands of protesters in recent days.
His daughter, Ardeshir-Larijani — a specialized cancer doc at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., — was granted a green card in 2021 under former President Joe Biden’s administration, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek on Thursday.
Another relative of a prominent previous government figure in Iran — who is living the American Dream in California — is also under fire online.
The man, Eissa Hashemi, is the 43-year-old son of Masoumeh Ebtekar — a k a “Screaming Mary,” the radical spokeswoman for the militants who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
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“The Trump Administration is reviewing all immigration benefits granted under former Biden administration to aliens from Countries of Concern including Iran,” McLaughlin told Newsweek.
Supporters of the petitions argue it’s unacceptable for senior members of Iran’s ruling class–whose regime has been accused of brutal crackdowns on protesters–to shelter in the US while ordinary Iranians suffer.
