Knut Rauchfuss

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. 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. This week, I terminated their lawful permanent resident status and today, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending their removal from our country. 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.

Iran’s delegation in Pakistan includes Mohammad Jafari Sahraroudi. He was the commander of the death squad that on July 13, 1989, assassinated Kurdish leader Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou and two of his aides during peace negotiations in Vienna, Austria. Austrian police issued an international arrest warrant for him on December 22, 1989. In order to cover up his terrorist and criminal record Sahraroudi has been using the name “Jafari” for many years and has removed “Sahraroudi” from his last name.