The glitzy LA-based niece of slain Iranian terror mastermind Qasem Soleimani used her social media to unfold the regime’s wartime propaganda towards the US and again Tehran’s threats towards Iranian expats branded “traitors” earlier than her Friday arrest by ICE brokers.
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, 47, didn’t simply repost regime messaging — she echoed it in her personal phrases, cheering a crackdown on dissidents and amplifying wartime narratives boosting Tehran’s battlefield efficiency.
In vulgar posts, Afshar referred to as the US the “Nice Devil” and celebrated assaults towards American troopers stationed within the Center East, in accordance with the State Division.
“Taking struggle reparations from the scum who bought out their homeland may be very satisfying 😂 … Now, go chase after your cash and property,” she wrote in a single Instagram story obtained by The Submit that was translated from its unique Farsi.
Hours earlier, she circulated a wartime declare about Iran’s energy towards US forces.
“American officers have informed the New York Occasions that Iran is responding extra successfully than the Trump administration anticipated, and has demonstrated a stronger navy functionality,” she wrote in one other Farsi-language submit.
Afshar additionally backed escalating threats from Tehran focusing on Iranians overseas — together with warnings of asset seizures and even execution — whereas mocking critics and defending the regime’s stance.
“Do they nonetheless dare to make such claims? … In fact, by ‘immigrants’ they imply these whose fingers are stained with the blood of the folks. They imply the homeland-sellers,” she wrote.
In between the propaganda posts, Afshar shared pics of her lavish life-style in LA in addition to herself in skimpy couture outfits that will be unlawful within the Islamic Republic, the place girls have been arrested and crushed to demise for not carrying head coverings.
In a single apparently airbrushed snap, Afshar reveals off a wristful of gold jewellery, manicured nails, and a Louis Vuitton hoodie. In one other, she chugs a bottle of champagne within the desert subsequent to a helicopter.
Taking a break from her glam photographs, she amplified studies of political division contained in the US over the struggle, sharing a headline that learn: “Wall Avenue Journal: Inside stress towards Trump relating to struggle with Iran is rising.”
Afshar additionally appeared to welcome Iran’s new management, sharing a state media announcement declaring the rise of Mojtaba Khamenei as Supreme Chief in a submit set to a devotional Persian tune.
“Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has been launched because the third Supreme Chief of the Islamic Revolution, with a decisive vote by the Meeting of Specialists…,” the submit learn.
In one more submit, Afshar shared an anti-opposition graphic focusing on Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s final Shah’s eldest son, who lives within the US as a dissident in exile. The political cartoon reveals Pahlavi smiling whereas holding US and Israeli flags as a metropolis burns behind him below missile hearth — imagery designed to painting him as aligned with international enemies towards Iran.
The submit, labeled “Why Reza Pahlavi isn’t Iran’s future,” framed the exiled determine as complicit within the nation’s destruction — a message she amplified with out remark, signaling alignment with regime narratives attacking the Iranian opposition.
In one other submit, Afshar invoked hardline nationalist rhetoric, warning that whereas “this darkish cloud shall be lifted from over Iran,” those that sided with the nation’s enemies would bear a everlasting “mark” as traitors — earlier than quoting a classical verse declaring that dying with honor is healthier than residing as an enemy of the homeland.
Afshar entered the US in 2015 on a vacationer visa, was granted asylum in 2019 and secured a inexperienced card in 2021 — standing that Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked this week earlier than her arrest in Los Angeles.
She was taken into ICE custody and is now dealing with elimination from the nation, officers mentioned, after authorities accused her of selling Iranian regime propaganda whereas residing within the US.
Her daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, was additionally arrested by ICE brokers and had her inexperienced card revoked after getting into the nation on a scholar visa in 2015 and later acquiring everlasting residency in 2023.
The crackdown prolonged past the Soleimani household.
The State Division final month additionally stripped authorized standing from Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larjiani — the daughter of a prime Iranian regime determine — who has since left the US and is completely barred from returning, in accordance with officers.
