Shima T. Moein is a physician and neuroscientist whose research concerns smell, taste and clinical testing. She has published research with affiliations at the University of Pennsylvania's Smell and Taste Center and Sensonics International. She also writes commentary on Iranian politics and works in calligraphy and painting.
DI has documented statements by Shima T. Moein on Immigration Policy and Law Enforcement. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Role at the time: Physician, neuroscientist and commentator writing in her own name
Challenged the characterization
Statement summary
Moein argued that Tahmasebi's essay omitted the adults' own statements and professional connections, complicating its description of punishment based on ancestry.
“Tahmasebi has constructed a version of her story that leaves out facts that complicate the narrative of “bloodline punishment.””
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)The Story Maryam Tahmasebi Didn't Tell The NationSection Is This Really a Story About Bloodline; paragraph beginning But The Nation, sentence beginning Tahmasebi has constructed
Why we used this label
Relative to the government's treatment of this family, Moein disputed its description as bloodline punishment. Her argument challenges that account without a clear endorsement of prolonged detention.
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.
