US Detains and Deports Soleimani's Relatives, Revokes Green Cards

The United States detained Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter after Rubio revoked their permanent resident status.

The State Department described Afshar as an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on American forces.

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Rubio tweeted they were green card holders living lavishly in the United States.

Iranian media quoted Soleimani's daughter denying any connection to her father.

Soleimani Afshar entered the US on a tourist visa in 2015 and was granted asylum in 2019.

She became a green card holder in 2021 and revealed four trips to Iran in her naturalisation application.

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Her daughter came on a student visa and was granted asylum and a green card in 2023.

Soleimani Afshar's husband has been barred from entering the US.

“The United States has revoked the permanent residency of two women it says are related to Qassem Soleimani, the late major general who led Iran’s Quds Force, the foreign branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), from 1998 until his assassination in 2020”

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Earlier, Rubio terminated the legal status of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani and her husband.

The department described these actions as preventing supporters of anti-American terrorist regimes from residing in the US.

Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike in January 2020.

Trump repeatedly called it one of his administration's greatest counterterrorism accomplishments.

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The revocations closely link immigration enforcement to the geopolitics of the war.