Iranian-American activists are circulating two online petitions to ask the Trump administration to deport the relatives of senior Iranian regime officials, arguing they should not enjoy lives of comfort and privilege in America while the Islamist regime is murdering thousands of dissidents to remain in power.
One of the petitions targets Eissa Hashemi, the 43-year-old son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, a spokeswoman for the Islamic revolution in Iran when it took American embassy workers hostage in 1979.
Ebtekar went on to become the first female vice president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Her son has been living in the United States since 2010 and currently works as an adjunct professor at The Chicago School in Los Angeles.
The other petition is directed against
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