Overview
- Drop Site News reported that Iranian birth records, IDs and a family will show Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Sarina have no family tie to Qassem Soleimani.
- U.S. authorities detained the pair after revoking their residency, a move that followed activist Laura Loomer’s claim of a Soleimani link and her tip to Homeland Security.
- The State Department said Hamideh praised Iran’s leaders on social media and called America the “Great Satan,” and it described her as an outspoken backer of the Iranian government.
- The document review, as relayed by Middle East Eye, portrays Hamideh as a past anti‑government protester in Iran who was briefly jailed before moving to the United States.
- Sarina said her mother has autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and is not getting needed care in detention, reporting fainting spells and dangerously low haemoglobin levels.