Operation Epic Fury took out Iran’s Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, on Tuesday. He was one of the most powerful figures in the despotic regime, and just days before his death was still mocking the U.S. and spreading wild conspiracy theories.
But did you know one of his daughters, Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani, is a U.S. trained physician who until very recently was working at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia? She just went home to pay her respects to her late father.
Looks like she had to change her outfit:
Ali Larijani’s daughter returns to Iran for her father’s funeral and goes on state media to praise her daddy.
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) March 19, 2026
Oh, and she’s been living in the U.S. and working at Emory University. https://t.co/TCpxfmpzM7 pic.twitter.com/HMG1XrzbDy
She stayed in this country after coming here for cancer treatment:
The daughter of Iran’s de facto leader Ali Larijani, who was killed in an airstrike Tuesday, is a medical doctor who taught at Emory University in Atlanta.
Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani was a doctor at the university’s prestigious Winship Institute until the university parted ways with her in January, according to reports, following pressure from dissidents.
Ardeshir-Larijani is herself a cancer survivor, who initially came to the US for treatment, according to Iranian dissidents who monitor the regime.
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck hit the nail on the head:
My lord are we governed by morons or what? Why the hell would we allow her here?
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) March 19, 2026
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Turns out, Ms. Larijani is far from the only nepo child of the Iranian regime studying on our shores. Call me crazy, but that seems like one hell of a safety risk to me.
Children of regime leaders and bigwigs are at prestigious universities across the US, including the University of Massachusetts, New York’s Union College and George Washington University, The Post can reveal.
Sources said allowing people linked to the regime to assume such influential positions could present a threat to US values. [Ya think?]
OK, so there may be a few dozen children of murderous zealots in our country “studying.” Oh, wait, hundreds?
No, thousands:
Known in Iran as Aghzadehs (“noble born”), such people are largely resented by their countrymen for living in the West while their high-ranking relatives promote anti-Western policies at home.
In total, there are estimated to be between 4,000 and 5,000 relatives of prominent Iranian regime leaders and bureaucrats living in the US, according to experts and dissidents. Hundreds more have taken up residence in Canada and Australia.
Children of Iran's regime leaders are educating America's students at colleges from New York to Los Angeles https://t.co/xelqCrrshH pic.twitter.com/wuepJ3WasW
— New York Post (@nypost) March 18, 2026
While I don’t believe in punishing children for the sins of their parents, you don’t have to welcome them in, either. This is the kind of atrocity their parents and relatives commit routinely:
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I’m sorry, but if you’re the offspring of a senior mullah, you have no business being here. What, are we going to start educating the children of Hamas commanders next?
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