More Iranians with criminal history arrested by ice officials
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EXCLUSIVE: Tuesday morning, at least five other Iranian nationals were arrested on Monday, in addition to the 11 announced by the Ministry of Internal Security.
Monday, Mohammad Hassanpoor, 45, was arrested by Baltimore police and received a “third opinion from the county”. He has already been criminally sentenced for “assault with a weapon or deadly force likely to produce large bodily injuries”, where he was sentenced to just under a year behind bars.
He was also sentenced to about three months behind bars for “battery: spouse / ex SP / Date / etc.” and sentenced to two years for harassment.
Kaveh Abedi, 45, was arrested on Monday in Chicago for “violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act” and was sentenced in 2001 for having sold cocaine.
Federal authorities illegally arrested a total of 15 Iranian nationals in the country, including Mohammad Hassanpoor (right). (Daniel Torok / La Maison Blanche via Getty Images / Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Arish Rustami was also arrested and has an previous sexual offense, and Abdolmohammad Raghibzadeh was placed in police custody on Monday. He has obtained an expulsion order since November 2005 from an immigration judge in Arizona, and he is currently Iranian citizen, according to Ice.
In 1999, he already faced arrests for “domestic violence, vandalism and intimidation” and made 90 days behind bars and five years of probation. He faced two other arrests and prison terms for “violations of the probation of previous crimes”.
In May 2006, Raghibzadeh could not obtain appropriate documents to return to Iran, so he received a “supervision order” and then released. But in 2007, he was again arrested by sheriffs in Santa Ana, California, not to have followed probation and had to pass the rest to California Chino detention center, according to Ice.
Sahand Yousefinasrabadi was arrested on Monday by the federal authorities “during an action to apply the targeted law” at Forth Worth, Texas. Yousefinasrabadi was sentenced in September 2013 for aggravated sexual assault of a child, and was asked in October 2013 to leave the United States by an immigration judge.
A demonstrator holds an image of the supreme leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while gathering with others during a gathering in solidarity with the government against the attacks of Israel against Iran and to mark Eid al-Ghadir, when according to Shiite Muslim belief, the Islamic prophet Mohame Tehran on June 14, 2025. (Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images)
The arrests are involved among the concerns about Iranian sleeping cells in the United States after strikes on the nuclear sites of the nuclear sites Middle East nation. Although there is currently a cease-fire between Iran and Israel, the DHS noted the arrests made since Sunday.
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“Under secretary Noem, the DHS was at full speed on the identification and arrest of known or suspect terrorists and violent extremists who have entered this country illegally entered, entered by the fraudulent conditional liberation programs of Biden or other,” said DHS deputy secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, in a press release on the first 11 arrests publicly announced.
“We have said that we get the worst of the worst – and we are not. We do not expect a military operation to be executed; we proactively deliver the mandate of President Trump to secure the homeland,” added McLaughlin.
US vice-president JD Vance, from left to left, American president Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, and Pete Hegseth, US defense secretary during a speech to the nation in the east house in the White House in Washington, DC, in the United States on Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria / Reuters / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In particular, Yousef Mehridehno was arrested by Ice Sunday at Mississippi And was on a “known or suspected” terrorist surveillance list in February.
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Ancient Body of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Mehran Makari Saheli member was arrested by minnesota ice cream, and DHS said that he had “admitted bonds with Hezbollah” and that he stayed in the United States despite the departure of the court in June 2022.
During Biden administration only, 729 out of approximately 1,500 Iranian nationals who entered the country illegally released in the United States
