{"id":4725,"date":"2026-04-06T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:07:33","slug":"ice-arrest-family-of-slain-iran-warlord-living-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4725","title":{"rendered":"ICE arrest family of slain Iran warlord living in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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They are facing removal from the US<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested the niece and grandniece of late Iranian general Qassim Soleimani, as they now face deportment from the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Soleimani\u2019s family members, 47-year-old Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter, 25-year-old Sarinasadat Hosseiny, were arrested in Los Angeles by federal immigration agents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that they have also had their permanent residence rescinded.<\/p>\n

Rubio said that Ms Soleimani Afshar, the niece of Soleimani, was \u201can outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the \u2018Great Satan\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They are now in the custody of ICE and pending removal from the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Soleimani was killed in an American air strike in Iraq in January 2020, on Trump\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He was considered by some analysts the right-hand man of the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and the second-most powerful person in Iran after Khamenei.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Iranian supreme leader was also assassinated in the 2026 Iran war, in a joint US-Israeli air strike on his compound in Tehran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Sunday, however, an official of the Iranian foreign ministry claimed that the women arrested were not related to Soleimani.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Narjes Soleimani, the late military commander\u2019s daughter, said his family had never lived in \u200cthe US and that he had two nephews, not nieces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe individuals arrested in the US have no connection whatsoever to Martyr Soleimani and the claims made by the US State Department are false\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The US state department had earlier identified the pair as family members of the late general.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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They are facing removal from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested the niece and grandniece of late Iranian general Qassim Soleimani, as they now face deportment from the United States. Soleimani\u2019s family members, 47-year-old Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter, 25-year-old Sarinasadat Hosseiny, were arrested in Los Angeles by federal immigration agents. US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4888,3534,1297,1666,613,1183,4887,4634,4884,4885,4886],"class_list":{"0":"post-4725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-arrest","10":"tag-family","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-living","14":"tag-los","15":"tag-marco-rubio","16":"tag-qassim-soleimani","17":"tag-slain","18":"tag-warlord"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}