Iranian leaders call the US the \u201cGreat Satan\u201d and burn effigies of President Donald Trump in the streets \u2014 but that doesn\u2019t stop them sending their kids over here to learn.<\/p>\n
Children of regime leaders<\/a> and bigwigs are at prestigious universities across the US, including University of Massachusetts, New York\u2019s Union College and George Washington University, The Post can reveal.<\/p>\n Sources said allowing people linked to the regime to assume such influential positions could present a threat to US values.<\/p>\n Leila Khatami is a professor of mathematics at Union College in upstate New York. She is the daughter of Mohammad, a Shia cleric who was president of Iran from 1997 to 2005. Union College<\/p>\n \u201cI would think that there would be a security risk as Iranian academics have been critical in forming public\u00a0opinion on the left in the US, essentially deceiving liberals into thinking that the regime is more progressive, when it\u2019s still advancing the same hardline agenda,\u201d said Janatan Sayeh<\/a>, an Iran analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington DC-based think tank.<\/p>\n The Post has seen no specific evidence against anyone featured in this story.<\/p>\n The daughter of Iran\u2019s de facto leader Ali Larijani,<\/a> who was killed in an airstrike Tuesday, is a medical doctor who taught at Emory University in Atlanta.<\/p>\n Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani was, until recently, a doctor at the university\u2019s prestigious Winship Institute until the university parted ways with her in January, according to reports,<\/a> following pressure from dissidents.<\/p>\n Ardeshir-Larijani is herself a cancer survivor, who initially came to the US for treatment, according to Iranian dissidents who monitor the regime.<\/p>\n Ali Larijani, who was killed in an airstrike on Tuesday, was the de facto ruler of Iran following the death of the former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His daughter and a niece work as professors in the US. REUTERS<\/p>\n An effigy of the mythical figure Baal with a Star of David on his forehead and picture of President Trump attached to it is burned in Tehran earlier this year. Takweyat Foundation\/Instagram<\/p>\n \u201cFatemeh Larijani\u2026 the daughter of Ali Larijani came to the United States for cancer treatment, the very country her family\u2019s system condemns, while millions of Iranians are denied access to basic healthcare and opportunity,\u201d said Lawdan Bazargan, a human rights activist from the Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists.<\/p>\n Pressure had been building for Ardeshir-Larijani to be fired \u2014 and possibly removed from the US \u2014 in light of the US-Iran war, although it had been building since the regime\u2019s bloody crackdown on protesters <\/a>that began in late December.<\/p>\n A change.org petition signed by more than 156,000 people urges the Trump administration to deport Ardeshir-Larijani.<\/p>\n Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani, a cancer specialist, was fired in January from Emory University\u2019s prestigious Winship Institute. More than 156,000 people signed a petition to deport her. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani<\/p>\n Eissa Hashemi, a professor in Los Angeles, is the son of Masoumeh Ebtekar, who was a spookesperson for the radical students who held American diplomats hostage for 444 days during the Iranian revolution. Eissa Hashemi<\/p>\n In New York, Leila Khatami, the daughter of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, teaches mathematics at Union College in Schenectady.<\/p>\n Mohammad Khatami was president from 1997 and 2005, and while he is considered a reformist within the country\u2019s political system, dissidents say he was still part of a government that condoned human rights abuses and repression of its own citizens.<\/p>\n Following US airstrikes against Iran, which began last month, Leila Khatami\u2019s photo and bio were removed from the Mathematics Department\u2019s Faculty and Staff web page. Khatami\u2019s aunt is a granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomeini, who ruled Iran after the revolution in 1979 until his death in 1989.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve turned Iran into a hell for us Iranians, while their children live in the West, holding key positions in universities and spreading anti-Western values,\u201d said a critic of the regime on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mousemeh Ebtekar is a former Vice President of the Islamic Republic. Her son is a professor in the US. REUTERS<\/p>\n Ehsan Nobakht is an associate professor of medicine at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. His father is a prestigious physician, and a previous deputy director of Iran\u2019s health ministry. George Washington University School of Medicine<\/p>\n