Rubio revokes green cards of foreign nationals linked to ‘Iranian regime propagandist’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked the green cards of foreign nationals linked to Iranian propagandist, according to an announcement from the State Department on Saturday.

"Masoumeh Ebtekar - also known as "Screaming Mary" - was the spokeswoman for the Islamic terrorists who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days - subjecting them to beatings, starvation, and mock executions," Rubio wrote on X.

"In 2014, the Obama Administration granted visas to her son and his family to enter the United States. In June 2016, the Obama Administration gave them lawful permanent resident status via the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program," he added. 

Rubio wrote that he "terminated their lawful permanent resident status." Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son are in the "custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending their removal from our country," he added.

Rubio said that "her family should never have been allowed to benefit from the extraordinary privilege of living in our country."

"America can never become home for anti-American terrorists or their families - and under the Trump Administration, it never will," he said.