Iranian Common Qasem Soleimani’s niece was a “crazed stalker” who made her ex-boyfriend’s life hell, the California Submit can reveal — after she was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers in Los Angeles.
On Friday, ICE brokers took Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, into custody from her residence within the Los Angeles neighborhood of Tujunga. Afshar is the niece of the deceased Iranian navy chief Gen. Soleimani.
Her 25-year-old daughter Sarinasadat Hosseiny went together with her after each had their inexperienced playing cards revoked for alleged ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Los Angeles hairdresser Zare Mandani, 54, was granted a five-year restraining order towards Afshar following a marketing campaign of harassment in 2024 at his work deal with and residence.
When knowledgeable of her Friday arrest by ICE, Mandani advised The Submit: “Thank God. That’s good. She’s a stalker.
“She’s a loopy girl. Thank God she’s been arrested and goes to be deported. She’s not a standard particular person.”
He continued: “I took her to court docket twice. She gave me an excessive amount of of a headache. I requested her properly to depart me alone and I blocked her however she wouldn’t pay attention.”
Mandani mentioned he first met Afshar at a celebration and observed she was carrying a wig.
In court docket filings for the home violence restraining order, he listed their relationship as “we’re courting or used so far,” although he advised The Submit they had been simply buddies.
The filings outlined allegations of “emotional abuse, harassment, made repeated undesirable calls, blocked motion, stored me from working at work place,” and that she “threatened to harm herself.”
The restraining order comes amid Afshar’s federal entanglements.
The surprised renter of the Tujunga property, piano teacher Halasius Bradford, 50, mentioned he now realizes Afshar and her daughter had been on ICE’s radar for a while earlier than brokers swooped.
“It was loopy seeing what occurred. I noticed three LAPD patrol automobiles and one or two from ICE,” Bradford advised The Submit.
Afshar entered the US on a vacationer visa in 2015, gained asylum in 2019, and have become a inexperienced card holder in 2021.
Her daughter arrived in 2021 on a pupil visa and secured a inexperienced card in 2023. Each had traveled again to Iran a number of instances, elevating purple flags with US authorities.
Afshar had celebrated assaults on US troopers and navy services, praised Iran’s Supreme Chief, known as America the “Nice Devil,” and voiced assist for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a delegated terror group, in response to the State Division.
The Submit’s go to to her house on Saturday revealed she was dwelling in a small ADU behind the primary two-bedroom, two-bathroom house Bradford rents.
She had purchased the Plainview Avenue property for $505,000 in 2021. Photographs from the scene supply a glimpse into the ladies’s rigorously curated Los Angeles way of life.
Inside her humble house, about 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, was a selfie ring gentle and a full-form model for her to hold her designer label outfits.
She additionally drove a black Tesla, which on Saturday was filled with luxurious items, together with a Miss Dior bag, some Hermès cushions, a Sephora make-up bag, and one other grey leather-based purse within the entrance passenger footwell.
Some objects contained in the automobile bore Arabic writing, whereas a number of parking tickets had been additionally scattered inside.
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