Eissa Hashemi has never denounced his mother \u2014 a spokesperson for the Iranian regime\u2019s propaganda machine \u2014 but still he\u2019s living large in Los Angeles, lecturing American students in his field: psychology.<\/p>\n
Hashemi<\/a>, 43, has been living in the United States since 2010 and is an adjunct associate professor at The Chicago School in Los Angeles, the New York Post reported \u2014 but has recently faced criticism and calls for deportation as critics say that he has never publicly condemned his mother\u2019s role in the oppressive Iranian revolutionary government.<\/p>\n Hashemi is the son of former Iranian Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar<\/a> \u2014 better known as \u201cScreaming Mary\u201d to Americans who were alive when militants attacked the United States Embassy in Tehran in 1979.<\/p>\n Ebtekar was a 19-year-old college student when she joined the revolutionaries in storming the embassy \u2014 and because she herself had been raised in Philadelphia, she quickly became their spokesperson when their embassy raid escalated to a hostage crisis that went on for more than a year.<\/p>\n She was the voice heard around the world after violent revolutionaries took 52 American hostages \u2014 and proceeded to hold them for 444 days \u2014 giving interviews in English and spinning the regime\u2019s propaganda throughout. She often toured the embassy where the hostages were being held, pushing them to give more positive comments about their time in captivity.<\/p>\n She has, in the time since, claimed that the United States is to blame for diplomatic rifts between Washington and Tehran \u2014 and has defended her own role in the revolution.<\/p>\n Hashemi, for his part, is just one of a number of Iranians who were born into political prominence in the regime, but who have since chosen to live in the United States. He is also one of several children of the regime who have risen to prominent positions in academia, and have gone on to educate American children.<\/p>\n Several of those who have been connected to regime officials have already had their legal status<\/a> in the United States revoked \u2014 and a number have already begun petitioning for Hashemi to receive similar treatment. Several protests calling for just that took place in January outside The Chicago School and other facilities with which he has been associated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n