Iranian ‘Screaming Mary’ son fights deportation after Trump administration revokes inexperienced card

Iranian Individuals are demanding that the Trump administration instantly take away “Screaming Mary’s” son and his household from america, arguing that taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the invoice for his or her months-long keep in ICE detention.

Greater than 4 months after Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated the lawful everlasting resident standing of three relations of infamous Iranian regime determine Masoumeh Ebtekar, the household stays in america as they spend massive sums on legal professionals preventing their removing.

The household even used a brazen GoFundMe marketing campaign to lift greater than $40,000 to help they combat after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their inexperienced playing cards in April 2026.

Seyed Eissa Hashemi — Ebtekar’s son — his spouse, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their teenage son had been arrested by federal brokers in April.

The marketing campaign was shut down after outrage within the American Iranian group.

They’ve remained in ICE custody in Texas pending removing.

Ebtekar, infamously nicknamed “Screaming Mary,” was the English-language spokeswoman for the Islamist militants who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Individuals hostage for 444 days. She later rose by the Iranian regime to function a vice chairman.

Tahmasebi described her detention as “hell” in an essay printed by The Nation earlier this month.

Now the Institute for Voices of Liberty (IVOL), a company advocating for a free Iran, has launched a petition demanding that the administration carry the case to a “immediate, lawful and clear decision” and reveal how a lot the extended detention is costing taxpayers.

The petition, “Defend America from the Affect of Iran’s Authoritarian Regime,” has attracted virtually 14,000 signatures.

“It is a matter of nationwide safety, authorities transparency, and the constant enforcement of American regulation,” IVOL stated.

“Individuals deserve national-security choices which are lawful, clear, and carried by with out pointless delay.”

The group factors to Part 237(a)(4)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which offers grounds for eradicating a overseas nationwide when the Secretary of State determines that their presence or actions might have probably severe opposed foreign-policy penalties for america.

The household has challenged the federal government’s motion and stays embroiled in authorized proceedings.

IVOL pressured that it respects the household’s proper to combat the case.

“We respect due course of and the authority of the courts,” the group stated.

“We additionally imagine Individuals deserve clear details about the standing of those circumstances and the federal government’s broader evaluate of people with materials connections to senior officers and establishments of the Islamic Republic.”

The petition calls on President Donald Trump, Rubio, the Division of Homeland Safety, ICE and the Justice Division to finish the proceedings, clarify any authorized boundaries holding them up and disclose the associated fee to taxpayers of conserving the household detained.

The brand new push comes after Iranian dissidents blasted a GoFundMe marketing campaign set as much as assist the household.

The fundraiser had collected almost $40,000 earlier than being taken down over the weekend following complaints from anti-regime Iranians.

Among the many household’s most outspoken critics is Raheleh Amiri, an Iranian dissident who misplaced a watch after being shot by Iranian safety forces throughout anti-regime protests.

Amiri advised the California Publish that Ebtekar’s involvement within the 1979 hostage disaster went far past merely performing as a translator, as Tahmasebi sought to painting it in her essay for The Nation.

Amiri additionally contrasted the household’s entry to the American authorized system with the brutal remedy confronted by dissidents inside Iran.

Iranian activist Mersedeh Shahinkar, who additionally misplaced a watch after being shot throughout a 2022 anti-hijab protest and now lives in California, urged her Instagram followers to signal the petition.

She stated that “residence, fast relations, and monetary entry with out correct scrutiny elevate professional nationwide safety and public belief considerations.”

IVOL stated its marketing campaign shouldn’t be aimed toward Iranian Individuals or individuals who fled the Islamic Republic.

As an alternative, it’s calling for scrutiny of circumstances involving individuals it says have “materials connections” to senior Iranian officers or establishments — and demanding solutions about why the Hashemi household’s case stays unresolved.

“Individuals deserve national-security choices which are lawful, clear, and carried by with out pointless delay,” the petition says.

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