Emory University has removed the daughter of a senior Iranian regime official from their faculty, after Republican Rep. Earl Carter (Georgia) called for her removal earlier this week, London-based anti-regime outlet Iran International reported.
Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani was previously listed on the Emory University School of Medicine's website as an assistant professor in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology. She has since been removed from the site.
Iran International reports that Emory's Winship Cancer Institute, where Ardeshir-Larijani worked, confirmed that "a physician who is the daughter of a senior Iranian government official is no longer an employee of Emory," though it refused to provide more details due to it being a personnel matter.
Ardeshir-Larijani's father, Ali Larijani, is the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. He was sanctioned by the US Treasury last week, along with other Iranian officials, in the wake of the Iranian regime's brutal response to protests.
Ardeshir-Larijani's dismissal came after a protest occurring earlier this week outside the Winship Cancer Institute, demanding her removal from the faculty, the outlet noted.
Carter rails against Iran official's daughter treating American patients
In Carter's letter to the university and the medical board earlier this week, he claimed that Dr. Ardeshir-Larijani's continuing to treat American patients is unacceptable, due to potential threats to national security.
"Physicians are entrusted with intimate access to patients, sensitive personal information, and critical medical decision-making," Carter wrote. He went on to say that providing Dr. Ardeshir-Larijani with such information while her father advocates for violence against the United States was "a reckless failure of judgment."