The glitzy LA-based niece of slain Iranian terror mastermind Qasem Soleimani used her social media to spread the regime’s wartime propaganda against the US and back Tehran’s threats against Iranian expats branded “traitors” before her Friday arrest by ICE agents.
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, didn’t just repost regime messaging — she echoed it in her own words, cheering a crackdown on dissidents and amplifying wartime narratives boosting Tehran’s battlefield performance.
In vulgar posts, Afshar called the US the “Great Satan” and celebrated 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 one Instagram story obtained by The Post that was translated from its original Farsi.
Hours earlier, she circulated a wartime claim about Iran’s strength against US forces.
“American officials have told the New York Times that Iran is responding more effectively than the Trump administration expected, and has demonstrated a stronger military capability,” she wrote in another Farsi-language post.
Afshar also backed escalating threats from Tehran targeting Iranians abroad — including warnings of asset seizures and even execution — while mocking critics and defending the regime’s stance.
“Do they still dare to make such claims? … Of course, by ‘immigrants’ they mean those whose hands are stained with the blood of the people. They mean the homeland-sellers,” she wrote.
In between the propaganda posts, Afshar shared pics of her lavish lifestyle in LA as well as herself in skimpy couture outfits that would be illegal in the Islamic Republic, where women have been arrested and beaten to death for not wearing head coverings.
In one apparently airbrushed snap, Afshar shows off a wristful of gold jewelry, manicured nails, and a Louis Vuitton hoodie. In another, she chugs a bottle of champagne in the desert next to a helicopter.
Taking a break from her glam shots, she amplified reports of political division inside the US over the war, sharing a headline that read: “Wall Street Journal: Internal pressure against Trump regarding war with Iran is growing.”
Afshar also appeared to welcome Iran’s new leadership, sharing a state media announcement declaring the rise of Mojtaba Khamenei as Supreme Leader in a post set to a devotional Persian song.
“Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has been introduced as the third Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, with a decisive vote by the Assembly of Experts…,” the post read.
In yet another post, Afshar shared an anti-opposition graphic targeting Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s last Shah’s eldest son, who lives in the US as a dissident in exile. The political cartoon shows Pahlavi smiling while holding US and Israeli flags as a city burns behind him under missile fire — imagery designed to portray him as aligned with foreign enemies against Iran.
The post, labeled “Why Reza Pahlavi isn’t Iran’s future,” framed the exiled figure as complicit in the country’s destruction — a message she amplified without comment, signaling alignment with regime narratives attacking the Iranian opposition.
In another post, Afshar invoked hardline nationalist rhetoric, warning that while “this dark cloud will be lifted from over Iran,” those who sided with the country’s enemies would bear a permanent “mark” as traitors — before quoting a classical verse declaring that dying with honor is better than living as an enemy of the homeland.
Afshar entered the US in 2015 on a tourist visa, was granted asylum in 2019 and secured a green card in 2021 — status that Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked this week before her arrest in Los Angeles.
She was taken into ICE custody and is now facing removal from the country, officials said, after authorities accused her of promoting Iranian regime propaganda while living in the US.
Her daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, was also arrested by ICE agents and had her green card revoked after entering the country on a student visa in 2015 and later obtaining permanent residency in 2023.
The crackdown extended beyond the Soleimani family.
The State Department last month also stripped legal status from Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larjiani — the daughter of a top Iranian regime figure — who has since left the US and is permanently barred from returning, according to officials.
