The Trump administration has started focusing on Iranian elites living in the US, revoking visas and Green Cards of at least four Iranian nationals connected to the current or former Iranian government.
Katie Miller, a podcaster and the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, said President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are working to cancel the visas of around 3,000 to 4,000 Iranian elites currently living in the US.
The move began with the revocation of Green Cards of Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Sarinasadat Hosseiny, the relatives of Qasem Soleimani, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Major General killed in a US airstrike in 2020.
Thousands of Iranian elites under watch, with two already detained by immigration authorities and facing deportation.
The State Department described Afshar's time in the US in strong terms, saying she "promoted Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against American soldiers and military facilities in the Middle East, praised the new Iranian Supreme Leader, denounced America as the 'Great Satan,' and voiced her unflinching support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated terror organization."
