US lawmaker calls for removal of Iran security chief’s daughter from Emory
US Representative Buddy Carter of Georgia has called for the removal of the daughter of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary, Ali Larijani, from her post at Emory University in the state capital Atlanta.
“I write to demand the immediate removal of Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani from her position at Emory University and the revocation of her Georgia medical license,” Carter wrote in a letter to the university and the Georgia Composite Medical Board.
The US Treasury last week sanctioned Ali Larijani for “coordinating” the Islamic Republic's response to nationwide protests on behalf of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and for publicly calling on security forces to use force to repress peaceful demonstrators.
It sanctioned him alongside other alleged "architects" of the deadliest crackdown on protests in the Islamic Republic's nearly fifty-year history earlier this month.
Ardeshir-Larijani is an assistant professor in the department of hematology and medical oncology at Emory medical school, whose official website describes her research as focusing on "new target discovery and defining an immune resistance mechanism in lung cancer."
Carter, who represents the district around the Atlantic port city of Savannah, said Larijani had “recently and publicly advocated violence against Americans and US allies” while holding a senior national security position, and argued that his daughter’s continued role treating patients in the United States was unacceptable.
“Physicians are entrusted with intimate access to patients, sensitive personal information, and critical medical decision-making,” Carter wrote, adding that allowing someone with close family ties to a senior Iranian security official to hold such a position posed risks to patient trust, institutional integrity and national security.
