The terrified boyfriend of Sarinasadat Hosseiny, grandniece of slain Iranian terror mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani, told an emergency dispatcher that he thought the 25-year-old was being kidnapped when she was arrested Friday.
Los Angeles Police Department records obtained by The Post detail the moment Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers swooped on the Iranian bombshell outside her mother’s house in Tujunga about 5.30pm.
Hosseiny’s panicking boyfriend called 911 to report a “possible kidnap” as ICE agents descended on Hosseiny and mom, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, according to LAPD call records.
The caller, who identified himself as Hosseiny’s boyfriend, said three “black vehicles pulled up and 5-6 individuals with guns took [his] girlfriend.”
When LAPD officers and a supervisor arrived at the scene, they spoke with an ICE agent who confirmed Hosseiny had been taken into custody and ICE officers were “attempting to arrest her mother from inside of a residence,” according to the LAPD’s notes.
Meanwhile, reps from Homeland Security Investigations, which is the investigative branch of The Department of Homeland Security, had previously warned the LAPD’s watch commander that an enforcement action might be taking place.
The LAPD officers stayed put several houses down from Afshar’s house and monitored the scene in case they were needed to keep the peace.
Neighbors said Afshar was living in a unit in the backyard of the humble Plainview Avenue property, about 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
Hosseiny was detained by ICE while driving, said piano tutor Halasius Bradford, 50, who rents the main two-bedroom, two bathroom home on the property.
“The boyfriend told me that he and Sarina were driving outside the house when they were cut up by ICE cars. He said the agents were demanding to know where the mother was,” Bradford, 50, previously told The Post.
ICE officers arrested Afshar, 47, at her home.
The niece and grandniece of Soleimani had their green cards revoked over their ties to the Iranian regime, according to a statement issued by acting Assistant DHS Secretary Lauren Bis.
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“It is a privilege to be granted a green card to live in the United States of America,” said Bis. “If we have reason to believe a green card holder poses a threat to the U.S., the green card will be revoked.”
Soleimani was head of the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard when he was killed by a drone strike ordered by President Trump in 2020, according to DHS.
Afshar and Hosseiny entered the United States in 2015, on a tourist visa and a student visa respectively. Asfar earned her green card in 2021, while Hosseiny got hers in 2023, according to DHS.
Afshar allegedly celebrated attacks on US soldiers and military bases, according to a State Department letter confirming the Friday arrests.
“While living in the United States, she 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 ‘Great Satan,’ and voiced her unflinching support for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps,” the letter said of Afshar.
She made at least four trips back to Iran since receiving her green card, according to DHS.
Afshar and Hosseiny both presented extravagant lifestyles on social media that were seemingly at odds with the Islamic regime they purportedly supported.
Hosseiny’s now-deleted social media showed the sultry beauty sunbathing in barely-there bikinis that display her stomach tattoos, lounging on yachts, flying in private jets and dancing at music festivals.
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Other posts showed Soleimani’s glam grandniece partying in Miami and Las Vegas, and vacationing in Alaska.
Afshar also showed off a lavish lifestyle online, but also used social media to blast America, calling the US the “Great Satan” and celebrating attacks against American soldiers stationed in the Middle East, according to the State Department.
“Taking war reparations from the scum who sold out their homeland is very satisfying 😂 … Now, go chase after your money and assets,” she wrote in Farsi on Instagram story obtained by The Post.
Meanwhile, Los Angeles hairdresser Zare Mandani, 54, was granted a five-year restraining order against Afshar following a campaign of harassment in 2024 at his work address and residence.
When told of Afshar’s arrest by ICE, Mandani said, “Thank God. That’s good. She’s a stalker.”
Court filings for Mandani’s domestic violence restraining order featured allegations of “emotional abuse, harassment, made repeated unwanted calls, blocked movement, kept me from working at work place,” and said Afshar “threatened to hurt herself.”
DHS officials were secretive about the whereabouts of Afshar and Hosseiny, citing “multiple sensitivities” around the arrest of the two noteworthy Iranian expats.











