Iran’s relatives tied to Qassem Soleimani and other Iranian nationals connected to Tehran’s government have had green cards or visas revoked under a decision by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to the U.S. State Department and a report from the Associated Press.

In a statement dated Saturday, the State Department said immigration agents arrested Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter late Friday after Rubio revoked their green cards. The department said both were taken into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The department said Afshar and her daughter had been living in Los Angeles for years while publicly supporting the Iranian government and anti-American attacks. In a post on X, Rubio said Afshar was “an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the “Great Satan,” according to the State Department’s description of his comments.

Rubio added in the same post that “The Trump administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes,” the State Department said. The department also said Afshar’s husband has been banned from entering the United States.

The State Department said Afshar and her daughter were among the latest Iranian nationals to have their legal status in the United States rescinded by Rubio. AP reported that the actions this week followed a late-2025 move in which Rubio revoked visas of several diplomats and staffers at Iran’s mission to the United Nations.

In addition to Afshar and her daughter, AP reported that Rubio recently revoked visas of Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, described as an academic and the daughter of Iran’s former national security adviser Ali Larijani, who was killed in a U.S.-Israel airstrike last month. AP also said the State Department reported that Larijani’s husband, Seyed Kalantar Motamedi, had his visa revoked and that neither person was still in the United States.

The State Department said Friday that the earlier late-2025 actions were taken on Dec. 4, while declining to comment further “for privacy and security reasons” beyond saying the step was unrelated to either protests or war. According to the AP report, the Iranian mission to the United Nations did not comment Saturday.

The AP report said Matthew Lee wrote the story, with Farnoush Amiri contributing.