Eissa Hashemi lives in luxury in Los Angeles and teaches organizational psychology to superrich California kids at The Chicago School. He is the 43-year-old son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, the woman known as Screaming Mary. She served as the English-speaking spokesperson for the Iranian militants who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. Those militants held 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days. Ebtekar stood in front of cameras and fed propaganda to the world while Americans suffered blindfolded and isolated. She never expressed regret for her role in that attack on US soil.
Hashemi refuses to denounce his mother’s actions. He stays silent when asked about her past. This silence confirms his alignment with the Iranian regime that attacked America and continues to fund terror worldwide. Iranian-American communities organized protests in January 2026 outside the $20,000-a-year Chicago School in Claremont, east of Los Angeles, and at other institutions tied to him. They carried signs demanding his removal. Change.org petitions gathered tens of thousands of signatures calling for immediate investigation and deportation of Hashemi and his wife, Maryam Tahmasebi. One petition states that:
while Ebtekar shows no regret for occupying the US embassy, her son enjoys the benefits of living in the United States that her regime denies to its own people.
This situation exposes the deep infiltration of regime-linked families into American institutions. Hashemi holds a position shaping the minds of elite students in California. He works as an adjunct faculty member teaching psychology at a school that charges premium tuition. He gets spotted leaving his home and working out at a high-end gym without any visible concern. His lifestyle matches the pattern of children and relatives of Iranian regime officials who:
- Flee the oppression they help create back home and settle into comfort here.
- Send their offspring to the “Great Satan” for education and safety while they crush dissent in Iran with executions and torture.
The 1979 hostage crisis was never just a student protest. It was a calculated act of war approved at the highest levels of the new Islamic Republic. Ebtekar, then in her late teens, used her perfect American English—gained from years living in Philadelphia—to translate demands and justify the captivity. She walked through the embassy compound urging hostages to praise their treatment on camera. That operation humiliated the United States, weakened American resolve abroad, and set the template for decades of Iranian aggression. Ebtekar rose through the regime ranks to become vice president for women and family affairs and head of environmental affairs under multiple administrations. She defended the regime’s crackdowns on protesters as recently as 2019, calling demonstrators terrorists. Her son now operates freely inside the country his mother’s actions targeted.
Deep state elements inside US immigration and academic systems allowed this infiltration for years. Regime families exploited student visas, work permits, and lax oversight to embed themselves in universities from New York to Los Angeles. They teach the next generation of American elites while their relatives in Tehran direct proxy wars against US interests through Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. The pattern repeats across multiple families. Relatives of high-ranking officials live large here, collect salaries from American taxpayers or tuition payers, and maintain loyalty to the mullahs. Hashemi’s refusal to break from his mother’s legacy proves the loyalty chain remains intact.
America First policy demands an end to this. President Trump’s administration reviewed immigration status for kin of Iranian ruling elite earlier this year. Officials moved to revoke thousands of visas held by Iranian regime-connected individuals. The deportation calls against Hashemi fit directly into that enforcement wave. Every day he stays undermines national security. His presence signals to the regime that America remains open for business to its propagandists and their bloodlines.
- It insults the 52 hostages who endured 444 days of captivity and the families who still carry the scars.
- It insults every American service member who fought Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- It insults Iranian dissidents who risk death protesting the same regime that produced Ebtekar.
Investigators must examine Hashemi’s immigration records, funding sources, and any financial ties back to Iran. Universities that employ regime offspring need audits. The Chicago School and similar institutions must explain why they hire individuals tied to a government designated as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. No psychological lecture from Hashemi can erase the fact that his family helped launch the modern era of American hostage diplomacy. His silence on his mother’s role equals endorsement.
The protests and petitions represent real pressure from communities that escaped the regime’s brutality. Iranian-Americans who watched their homeland turn into a prison demand accountability. They reject the hypocrisy of regime children enjoying California sunshine and luxury gyms while Iranians inside face morality police, rigged elections, and economic collapse engineered by the same elite class. Hashemi’s wife faces the same scrutiny. Both must face removal proceedings without delay.
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: The son of a notorious Iranian regime leader is facing calls to be DEPORTED after he was spotted living luxury in Los Angeles, teaching "superrich" California kids — NYP
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 7, 2026
GET THEM ALL OUT!
Eissa Hashemi faces calls to be deported after he refused to denounce… pic.twitter.com/kHnO6dhCpZ
This case is part of a larger power structure battle. Globalist elements in academia and bureaucracy protected these entries for decades under the guise of diversity or academic freedom. That shield collapses under America First enforcement. Deportation of Hashemi sends a clear message: loyalty to a regime that attacked the US embassy and holds Americans in contempt disqualifies anyone from residence here. No luxury lifestyle or teaching post overrides the blood debt from 1979.
Federal authorities possess the tools. Immigration law allows removal for individuals whose presence threatens public safety or national security, especially when tied to hostile foreign governments. The regime in Tehran continues uranium enrichment, missile development, and terror financing. Allowing its propagandist’s son to mold young American minds constitutes an unacceptable risk. Protests outside his workplace and petitions with massive signatures prove the public will exists for action.
Hashemi brushed off questions when confronted. That defiance matches the regime’s arrogance. He benefits from the system his mother helped radicalize against. The time for tolerance ended with the first blindfold placed on an American hostage in Tehran. Deportation proceedings against Eissa Hashemi and every other regime-linked family member must accelerate until none remain on US soil. America secures its borders and its institutions by removing the infiltrators first. Get them all out.
