Iranians celebrating the cancelation of visas for Islamic Regime relatives living luxurious lives in the U.S. have warned the seven deported so have are just “the tip of the iceberg.”
Shayan Khosravanifarahani, a journalist and activist, praised State Secretary Marco Rubio for taking action against those who have ties to the regime, telling The Post that for too long they’ve living comfortably using money stolen from the Iranian people.
He said the families of the regime were ”using American” to platform their propaganda, lobby, get educated and generally live a safe, more comfortable life.
On Saturday, Rubio revoked the green card of Seyed Eissa Hashemi, who is an an adjunct associate professor teaching at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and the son of ”Screaming Mary” Masoumeh Ebtekar, the twisted propaganda mouthpiece for terrorists who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979.
Hashemi’s psychology professor wife, Maryam Tahmasebi, along with their son, also had their green cards yanked by federal officials.
The family was arrested just days after The Post identified them living in luxury in an Agoura Hills apartment called ”The Avalon.”
Their arrest comes just a week after Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, and Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, the grandniece and niece of the late Iranian terror mastermind, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, were booted from the country after years of lavish living.
Khosravanifarahani told The Post he spent two months working with other activist to gather evidence that was later shared with federal authorities and led to the arrests of both Hashemi and Afshar.
“We knew we couldn’t do really much about it just on social media. So, we immediately started hitting authorities and finding details about them,” Khosravanifarahani said, adding that Afshar’s own sister shared documents with them that led to her true identity being revealed.
“Even her sister was against how radical [Afshar] is,” he said. ”That’s why she wanted to help us.”
Khosravanifarahani, who was born in Iran and lived there until moving to the US at the age of 14, said there are “thousands more” Iranians with ties to the terrorist regime living in the US which pose a major national security threat.
“These people can be sleeper cells, and at the right time, they may get activated,” Khosravanifarahani said.
“They are really rooted in America, and that is why what is Department of Homeland Security or Immigration is doing to deport these people is so valid.”
His sentiment was echoed by Iranian-American and grassroots activist, Morgan Mahdizadeh.
“They are here to influence policy, they are here to steal technology, and that’s a national security threat,” Mahdizadeh told The Post.
“We are incredibly happy to see that US is finally deporting these regime thugs and sending them back to the very hell that they built for Iranian citizens.”
Mahdizadeh, who grew up in Iran before fleeing the country when she was 27, said Iranian-Americans have been trying to sound the alarm about the Islamic Regimes ties in the US for years
“The Democratic administration just closed their eyes to this,” Mahdizadeh said. “But, now we are really grateful that [the Trump Admin.] are taking action against these people and this is just the tip of the iceberg.”
Mahdizadeh told The Post she wants to use the freedom she was able to gain in America to help the Iranian people.
“You need to live in Iran to understand the extent of the oppression that this regime is doing on people,” she said. “I want to use this freedom to just advocate for the people who are basically voiceless.
Khosravanifarahani said it was crucial Rubio keeps the pressure on and more people are identified.
“We need to distinguish between our diaspora here, who are waiting for our land to be free so we can go back — and the regime who and are here to run their propaganda and do what as the regime tells them,” Khosravanifarahani said.
“We need to draw that line and make sure people know that we are not them.”
