ICE arrests 11 Iranian nationals in 48 hours

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In its latest crackdown against illegal immigration, federal agents arrested eleven Iranian foreign nationals in 48 hours, including one watchlisted individual – part of a series of targeted operations spanning eight states and nine cities nationwide.

Among those arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since Sunday, June 22 was Mehran Makari Sahel in St. Paul, Minnesota. ICE's St. Paul division alleged Sahel is a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with admitted connections to Hezbollah.

ICE said that five of those arrested possessed previous criminal convictions ranging from grand larceny to drug and firearm possessions.

The Department of Homeland Security says Yousef Mehridehno had been living in America illegally for nearly 8 years when federal authorities determined he lied on a visa application. Roughly four months after the Iranian foreign national was added to the U.S. known or suspected terrorist list in February, he was apprehended by federal agents Sunday in central Mississippi, just outside of Jackson.

Officials have not linked these arrests to any specific terrorism plots and the Department of Homeland Security has stated that there are no current, credible threats to the U.S. homeland, despite a heightened security environment following U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend.

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