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US federal agents have arrested the niece and grandniece of the late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after the Trump administration’s top diplomat, Marco Rubio, revoked their lawful permanent resident status, officials said on Saturday.

“Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” or ICE, the state department said in a statement.

In his own statement on social media, Rubio, the US secretary of state, confirmed that the mother-daughter pair are “pending removal” from the US, a development that came after the US and Israeli militaries began waging war on Iran in late February, in part citing an Iranian history of terrorism sponsorship.

Saturday’s development with respect to Soleimani Afshar also came as the Trump administration has sought to revoke the legal immigration statuses of people it has determined to be aligned with enemies of the US.

Rubio’s statement said that the Trump administration “will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes”.

Officials allege that Soleimani Afshar celebrated military strikes against American personnel and praised Iran’s new supreme leader after the US and Israel killed his predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a large-scale air attack at the beginning of the war. They also accused her of labeling the US the “Great Satan”.

The statement about Soleimani Afshar further claims she voiced “unflinching support” for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – all while maintaining a “lavish” lifestyle in Los Angeles, with US officials pointing at her Instagram account as evidence.

In addition to the revocation of legal permanent resident – or green card – status for Soleimani Afshar and her daughter, her husband has also been formally prohibited from entering the US, officials said.

The maneuvers announced on Saturday followed a separate recent move by Rubio to terminate the legal status of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani – daughter of Ali Larijani, the former secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council – and her husband, Seyed Kalantar Motamedi. Both Ardeshir-Larijani and Motamedi have since departed the US and are under a permanent entry ban, according to the state department.

Soleimani Afshar’s father – whose name is also spelled Quassem Suleimani – was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad in January 2020 at age 62 during Donald Trump’s first presidency. He was widely considered to be the most powerful man in Iran at the time after Khamenei, and the country’s most influential military figure.

His importance was connected to his role commanding the elite Quds (Jerusalem) force of the IRGC, the strongest state security entity in the theocratic state of Iran.

Iran’s senior officials and military commanders had vowed to avenge Suleimani’s killing.

In early 2023, Iran’s president at the time, Ebrahim Raisi, told an audience in the capital of Tehran: “We have not and will not forget the blood of martyr Soleimani.”

Raisi, who died in a 2024 helicopter crash, also said: “The Americans must know that revenge for martyr Soleimani’s blood is certain, and the murderers and perpetrators will have no easy sleep.”

source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/soleimani-family-arrested-us-federal-authorities

Ordinary small iran is giving Gods chosen nation israel and The all mighty and powerful america sleepless nights and horrible nightmares.

Where are those fans of trump, those nairaland geopolitics professors, How far have they found the second missing pilot?

Tell trump to be fast before ordinary small iranians catch and kpai the man.

They're nowhere to be found, but I'm sure they're on NL looking for news that favours America and ishell

SarcasticWords:
Ordinary small iran is giving Gods chosen nation israel and The all mighty and powerful america sleepless nights and horrible nightmares.

Where are those fans of trump, those nairaland geopolitics professors, How far have they found the second missing pilot?

Tell trump to be fast before ordinary small iranians catch and kpai the man.

Although this move from the PDFile Regime is ILLEGAL, staying in a country that ASSASSINATED your uncle is just plain STEWPID.

No Iranian who SUPPORT the sovereignty of Iran and its GOVERNMENT should be in the US.
Except as a SPY.

Tell me something...

So Iran is so good she relocated with her daughter to America right? She will go back to Iran and help her irgc brethren.


See them...you hate America and you run away from your Iran to America to start talking nonsense.

Revocation of green card has began...una must go back una house.

Nonsense

SarcasticWords:
Ordinary small iran is giving Gods chosen nation israel and The all mighty and powerful america sleepless nights and horrible nightmares.

Where are those fans of trump, those nairaland geopolitics professors, How far have they found the second missing pilot?

Tell trump to be fast before ordinary small iranians catch and kpai the man.

Noise..

She should be in Iran fighting for her liberation...all this plenty talk is irrelevant.

Iran is heavenly and America is Satan abi, but she loves Satan more than blissful Iran?

She will be deported in less than 5 days...

Nuff Said

Namaster:
Although this move from the PDFile Regime is ILLEGAL, staying in a country that ASSASSINATED your uncle is just plain STEWPID.

No Iranian who SUPPORT the sovereignty of Iran and its GOVERNMENT should be in the US.
Except as a SPY.

Even TINUBUs children are quiet in America.
Even Remi Tinubu dare not try and sneak in again.

All terrorist relatives that celebrate American deaths will be deported.

Presidential revocation of papers is a very solid move.

Nuff Said

Yens77:
They're nowhere to be found, but I'm sure they're on NL looking for news that favours America and ishell

Germany did the same
Uk does it constantly
European nations do it brazenly sef without pity

America does it , they want to make it news

Shameless terrorists that abandon their sharia and relocate to places they claim to hate and enjoy liberties they can't get in their countries of birth.

Nonsense

SarcasticWords:
source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/soleimani-family-arrested-us-federal-authorities

nlfpmod

That means that soldier has been found and US wants to use her for bargaining.

Phase 1 . Completed
Phase 2 ..completed
Phase3..on going
Phase4...is being fine tuned and will be the shocker for Iranians.

All this will be done before the end of 8wks max.

THEN..


We face Nigeria and do the needful.

Yes ..awon ..noisemakers


Rescued personnel that are chilling...you go cry tire.

Flangelo12:
That means that soldier has been found and US wants to use her for bargaining.

esnbrutality:
Yes ..awon ..noisemakers


Rescued personnel that are chilling...you go cry tire.

This one is still lost.

The chopper gunner is still missing.

Yeah as unconfirmed sources stated abi?

Or you want to execute her and claim to have won the war?

Jokers...

Flangelo12:
This one is still lost.

The chopper gunner is still missing.

esnbrutality:
Yeah as unconfirmed sources stated abi?

Or you want to execute her and claim to have won the war?

Jokers...

No take this brain cross road.

The brain dey disturb you badly abi? .even bay onanuga dey fear the brain.

Flangelo12:
No take this brain cross road.

So the Almighty united of America can go this low, am not surprised

This is the plan, Almighty united states of America want to use them as bargaining chip for the missing pilot

Nothing bad with what the US government did. They are Iranian and they can go back to their fatherland.

Narjes Soleimani, daughter of the late Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, has denied that the two individuals arrested in the US are related to the family, in a letter published by the pro-reform Jamaran.

She said "none” of Soleimani’s family or relatives has ever lived in the US.

esnbrutality:
Yeah as unconfirmed sources stated abi?

Or you want to execute her and claim to have won the war?

Jokers...

As dem no see the woman grape the thing pain them enter bone. Useless cultist na to dey grape women dem Sabi.

They were permanent residents of a country they always chant 'death to' on a daily basis! Interesting

Desperate terrorists and slave to the Satanist evil Zionists have become desperate and losing their minds.
They thought Iran will give up so easily with their combined terrorist operations.

God will continue to strengthen and bless Iran.
We are witnessing the end of a terrorist, Satanist and child killer regime and empire.
Thank God.

Motayoayinde don enter hand

I have to say that Iran has totally surprised me with their level of resilience. How can one country be pressing both YS and Israel's neck like this? Lol

How will you escape to freedom and still misbehave, omorr, I go just dey party hard

fasho01:
They were permanent residents of a country they always chant 'death to' on a daily basis! Interesting

There are Americans in Iran too. It will be tit for tat. Una no de ever think go far.

Also when a foreign nation bombs you and kills your leaders, won't U also shout death to them Mtschhhhhhheeeeeeeeewwww

SarcasticWords:
Ordinary small iran is giving Gods chosen nation israel and The all mighty and powerful america sleepless nights and horrible nightmares.

Where are those fans of trump, those nairaland geopolitics professors, How far have they found the second missing pilot?

Tell trump to be fast before ordinary small iranians catch and kpai the man.

this israel is not even up to lagos and Ogun state. They are invading Iran 90million people...

shame

War is war, that is why wise people try to avoid it, until it becomes necessary. Don't be rabid.

Namaster:
Although this move from the PDFile Regime is ILLEGAL, staying in a country that ASSASSINATED your uncle is just plain STEWPID.

No Iranian who SUPPORT the sovereignty of Iran and its GOVERNMENT should be in the US.
Except as a SPY.

We have heard you Abdulmaleek😂😂

SarcasticWords:
Ordinary small iran is giving Gods chosen nation israel and The all mighty and powerful america sleepless nights and horrible nightmares.

Where are those fans of trump, those nairaland geopolitics professors, How far have they found the second missing pilot?

Tell trump to be fast before ordinary small iranians catch and kpai the man.

get your protest shoes on... right now we are only interested in key assets...by the time we start killing both flies and animals, you will need your protest shoes

LeeSmart:
We have heard you Abdulmaleek😂😂

What's funny tho
He's saying the truth

esnbrutality:
Tell me something...

So Iran is so good she relocated with her daughter to America right? She will go back to Iran and help her irgc brethren.


See them...you hate America and you run away from your Iran to America to start talking nonsense.

Revocation of green card has began...una must go back una house.

Nonsense

There are Americans in Iran as well. So stop blabbing
Also it's America that attacked Iran. There was relative peace before Trump stupidly bombed iran

SarcasticWords:
Ordinary small iran is giving Gods chosen nation israel and The all mighty and powerful america sleepless nights and horrible nightmares.

Where are those fans of trump, those nairaland geopolitics professors, How far have they found the second missing pilot?

Tell trump to be fast before ordinary small iranians catch and kpai the man.

I hope all is well with you!

All this one's still dey on suleimani matter? Person wey them kill since 2020. America is not a serious country under trump