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Lauren Aratani

US state department revokes green cards of three Iranian nationals it links to regime

man puts hand on sign with photo of older man next to sign saying 'donation for iran'
US officials revoked the green card status of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, daughter of the former Iranian security council secretary Ali Larijani. Photograph: Firdous Nazir/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

United States federal agents arrested three Iranian nationals – including the son of a revolutionary at the center of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis – after the US state department terminated their green cards, the department announced on Saturday.

State department officials revoked the green card status of Seyed Eissa Hashemi, whose mother was an Iranian revolutionary who served as the spokesperson for Iran’s regime during the hostage crisis that defined the late Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The state department also revoked the green card – or legal permanent resident – statuses of Hashemi’s wife and son.

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