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You can listen to me read this essay here:Why isn’t anyone talking about the husband of ‘Screaming Mary’ and the father of soon-to-deported Eissa Hashemi?Masoumeh Ebtekar, known as “Screaming Mary” is in the news as her son, Eissa Hashemi has been arrested and faces deportation from the United States. That makes for great news headlines. But I’m far more interested in her husband, Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi. One has to search hard to find information about him. I did that search and I will tell you who he is, but first, a little reminder about “Screaming Mary” and some questions about her son. In the video above (if you can stand her jarring ‘screaming’ voice), Masoumeh Ebtekar, defends the irony of her son studying in American when she was the Iran ‘79 hostage-taker spokeswoman ready “to shoot American hostages in the head.” Critics yell: “You climbed the Embassy wall but sent your kid to the US.”(Ebtekar scoffs) “My son went there to study just like you. What am I supposed to do?”What, indeed? He only followed in the footsteps of his mother and his grandfather, who both benefited from a top-notch American education before returning to Iran to become involved in Khomeini’s revolution, as Ebtekar did. Her hatred of the country which so generously helped her mirrors that of current dissidents like Mahmoud Khalil, who will now, at last, be deported. As Secretary Marco Rubio explained:"Her family should never have been allowed to benefit from the extraordinary privilege of living in our country. America can never become home for anti-American terrorists or their families — and under the Trump Administration, it never will."Hashemi and his wife were professors at The Chicago School in Los Angeles. I can find no instance where Eissa Hashemi or his wife said or did anything to indicate they are enemies of the United States. Yet, how can we be sure they are not currently involved in subterfuge or will be in the future. As I wrote about extensively in The Islamic States of America, jihadist sleeping cells exist in the United States just waiting to be awakened. Is it better to be safe than sorry and expel family members of jihadists or is this an injustice. I’m interested to know your thoughts by the end of this essay. Returning to the life of Ebtekar, she was rewarded for her loyalty to Ayatollah Khomeini and rose through the ranks of the regime, serving as a vice president as recently as 2017-2021. You can find out more about her past in an interesting 1981 New York Times article that asks the question: WONDER WHAT’LL BECOME OF ‘MARY’ IN TEHERANOf far more interest to me was one line that I read in an obscure article, stating that Ebtekar married one of her fellow hostage-takers. Really? Who was it? I searched and could find nothing about him until I came upon the article below. Ebtekar might have been out there screaming in the media, but her future husband, Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi, was behind the scenes and a far more dangerous person. While she takes the headlines currently, he remains obscure to this day, and one must wonder why. Keep in mind as you read this article that forty-seven years ago, students like Ebtekar’s husband used their enrollment in prestigious universities as a front for their revolutionary goals. This pattern remains unchanged to this day among members of Islamic radical groups. They are ideological operatives far more than they are traditional undergraduates. Again, we see the similarity between Ebtekar’s husband all those years ago and current dissidents like Mahmoud Khalil. We must ask the question, why did it take us so long to figure this out? And still, millions of Americans protest against it, to the extent of even electing a Twelver Islamic devotee like Zohran Mamdani to become mayor of New York City. Incredible. Here is the one place where I found Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi’s bio, in Grokipedia: Seyyed Mohammad Hashemi is an Iranian former intelligence official and revolutionary activist recognized as one of the core leaders of the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, the group responsible for the November 4, 1979, takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, which initiated the 444-day Iran hostage crisis.[1][2] As a key participant in the operation, Hashemi helped coordinate the storming of the compound, capturing 52 American diplomats and staff, an event that escalated tensions between Iran and the United States and contributed to the collapse of the Algiers Accords.[3] The seizure of the U.S. Embassy … was planned by a small core group of radical Islamists … with Mohammad Hashemi among the key ringleaders coordinating the operation…. Hashemi, who had not attended university classes for over a year and thus was not an active student, focused on logistical preparations and recruitment, including enlisting Masoumeh Ebtekar for her English proficiency to interrogate captives and handle communications.[9][10][11]Execution commenced shortly after dawn, as Hashemi ritually washed and pra