Screaming Marys son faces deportation after Rubio revokes green card as Iranian woman blinded by Revolutionary Guard fire speaks out
An Iranian-born activist who lost an eye after being shot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard during protests is blasting the son of a notorious former Iranian official who is fighting to remain in the US.Raheleh Amiri, who lives in California, is taking aim at Seyed Eissa Hashemi, the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar — the Iranian regime figure once dubbed “Screaming Mary” for her role as a spokeswoman during the 1979 hostage crisis.Hashemi was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in California months ago amid an effort to revoke his green card and deport him, reportedly under an order from Secretary of State Marco Rubio.The 43-year-old is now asking Americans for financial help through GoFundMe to stay in the US.Hashemi is refusing to leave the country his mother vowed, just a few decades ago, to destroy.The GoFundMe campaign has already raised nearly $40,000.It is meant to help Hashemi, his wife, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their teenage son fight pending removal proceedings after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their green cards in April 2026.Since April, the family has been staying in a Texas ICE detention center, with American taxpayers footing the bill to keep the family of three, closely tied to the murderous Iranian regime, fed, housed and clothed.Tahmasebi, Ebtekar’s daughter-in-law, has hired a lawyer and appealed their deportation order.
Through her attorney, she has broken her silence.In a letter published by The Nation earlier this month, she pleads for help, calling the place “hell.”Amiri, who still carries the scars of the Islamic Republic’s crackdown on anti-government demonstrations, spoke with The California Post and highlighted what she sees as the injustice of Iranians in her home country being readily executed without due process while the Ebtekar family benefits from an American justice system that often drags legal cases into year-long ordeals.The Tahmasebi letter quickly went viral, drawing significant backlash from the Iranian...