April 4 (UPI) -- ICE agents took the niece and grandniece of an Iranian general who was killed in 2020 in an airstrike during the first Trump administration into custody on Saturday.
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were taken into custody after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their lawful permanent resident status earlier this week.
The State Department said in a press release that they were arrested based on Soleimani Afshar's promotion of Iranian regime propaganda, support for Iranian-linked terror organizations and celebration of attacks against American soldiers and military assets in the Middle East.
"Until recently, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders living lavishly in the United States," Rubio said in a post on X.
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