The terrified boyfriend of Sarinasadat Hosseiny, grandniece of slain Iranian terror mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani, advised an emergency dispatcher that he thought the 25-year-old was being kidnapped when she was arrested Friday.
Los Angeles Police Division information obtained by The Submit element the second Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers swooped on the Iranian bombshell exterior her mom’s home in Tujunga about 5.30pm.
Hosseiny’s panicking boyfriend referred to as 911 to report a “attainable kidnap” as ICE brokers descended on Hosseiny and mother, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, in response to LAPD name information.
The caller, who recognized himself as Hosseiny’s boyfriend, mentioned three “black automobiles pulled up and 5-6 people with weapons took [his] girlfriend.”
When LAPD officers and a supervisor arrived on the scene, they spoke with an ICE agent who confirmed Hosseiny had been taken into custody and ICE officers had been “trying to arrest her mom from within a residence,” in response to the LAPD’s notes.
In the meantime, reps from Homeland Safety Investigations, which is the investigative department of The Division of Homeland Safety, had beforehand warned the LAPD’s watch commander that an enforcement motion may be going down.
The LAPD officers stayed put a number of homes down from Afshar’s home and monitored the scene in case they had been wanted to maintain the peace.
Neighbors mentioned Afshar was residing in a unit within the yard of the standard Plainview Avenue property, about 20 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
Hosseiny was detained by ICE whereas driving, mentioned piano tutor Halasius Bradford, 50, who rents the principle two-bedroom, two lavatory dwelling on the property.
“The boyfriend advised me that he and Sarina had been driving exterior the home once they had been reduce up by ICE vehicles. He mentioned the brokers had been demanding to know the place the mom was,” Bradford, 50, beforehand advised The Submit.
ICE officers arrested Afshar, 47, at her dwelling.
The niece and grandniece of Soleimani had their inexperienced playing cards revoked over their ties to the Iranian regime, in response to a press release issued by appearing Assistant DHS Secretary Lauren Bis.
“It’s a privilege to be granted a inexperienced card to dwell in the USA of America,” mentioned Bis. “If we’ve got purpose to imagine a inexperienced card holder poses a menace to the U.S., the inexperienced card will probably be revoked.”
Soleimani was head of the elite Quds Pressure of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard when he was killed by a drone strike ordered by President Trump in 2020, in response to DHS.
Afshar and Hosseiny entered the USA in 2015, on a vacationer visa and a pupil visa respectively. Asfar earned her inexperienced card in 2021, whereas Hosseiny obtained hers in 2023, in response to DHS.
Afshar allegedly celebrated assaults on US troopers and navy bases, in response to a State Division letter confirming the Friday arrests.
“Whereas residing in the USA, she promoted Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated assaults towards American troopers and navy services within the Center East, praised the brand new Iranian Supreme Chief, denounced America because the ‘Nice Devil,’ and voiced her unflinching help for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps,” the letter mentioned of Afshar.
She made not less than 4 journeys again to Iran since receiving her inexperienced card, in response to DHS.
Afshar and Hosseiny each introduced extravagant life on social media that had been seemingly at odds with the Islamic regime they purportedly supported.
Hosseiny’s now-deleted social media confirmed the sultry magnificence sunbathing in barely-there bikinis that show her abdomen tattoos, lounging on yachts, flying in personal jets and dancing at music festivals.
Different posts confirmed Soleimani’s glam grandniece partying in Miami and Las Vegas, and vacationing in Alaska.
Afshar additionally confirmed off a lavish life-style on-line, but in addition used social media to blast America, calling the US the “Nice Devil” and celebrating assaults towards American troopers stationed within the Center East, in response to the State Division.
“Taking struggle reparations from the scum who bought out their homeland could be very satisfying 😂 … Now, go chase after your cash and belongings,” she wrote in Farsi on Instagram story obtained by The Submit.
In the meantime, 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 advised of Afshar’s arrest by ICE, Mandani mentioned, “Thank God. That’s good. She’s a stalker.”
Court docket filings for Mandani’s home violence restraining order featured allegations of “emotional abuse, harassment, made repeated undesirable calls, blocked motion, stored me from working at work place,” and mentioned Afshar “threatened to harm herself.”
DHS officers had been secretive in regards to the whereabouts of Afshar and Hosseiny, citing “a number of sensitivities” across the arrest of the 2 noteworthy Iranian expats.
