Maryam Tahmasebi is a psychology educator and researcher who has taught psychology at Los Angeles Pierce College and The Chicago School. She holds an MS in agricultural and natural resources economics and MA and PhD degrees in community, Indigenous and ecological psychology. Her research examines climate change in Indigenous agricultural communities, decolonial and feminist psychology, and public education.
DI has documented statements by Maryam Tahmasebi on Immigration Policy. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Statement dates: August 11, 2026
Role at the time: Family member and author of the cited first-person essay
Statement summary
Tahmasebi condemned the detention and characterized it as punishment based on family relationship.
“This is bloodline punishment.”
Her first-person essay explicitly labels the action as bloodline punishment.
A participant is a subject of the case. A speaker has a statement documented in it. A commentator has an opinion or editorial documented in it.
Case
Relationship to this case: Participant
U.S. officials revoked the Hashemi–Tahmasebi family’s permanent residency and detained them, citing national-security and foreign-policy concerns tied to Eissa Hashemi’s mother. The family and its supporters say the government imposed guilt by association.
