Biden Admin Allowed Iranian Sniper Into US On Marriage Visa; Trump Admin Detains Him

The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security allowed a reported Iranian sniper to come into the US in October 2024 on a marriage visa, according to officials who spoke to CBS News.

According to the outlet, Ribvar Karmi, who was taken into custody on Sunday in northern Alabama, was found with an Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card on his person. ICE officials told the news outlet that the foreign national served as a sniper in the Iranian military from 2018 to 2021, but was then allowed into the United States in October 2024 on a K-1 visa.

The K-1 visa is for those foreign nationals who are engaged to be married to a US citizen. Karmi is now in ICE custody, where the officials said that he will remain pending removal proceedings.

The arrest was part of a wider effort on the part of ICE to arrest 11 other Iranian nationals residing in the US, one of whom was on the terror watchlist. The operation comes after Iran reportedly threatened to target the US homeland if the Trump administration bombed the terror regime’s nuclear facilities, which the president ordered last week.

“We have been saying we are getting the worst of the worst out — and we are,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told CBS News. “We don’t wait until a military operation to execute; we proactively deliver on President Trump’s mandate to secure the homeland.”

After the Trump administration launched the attack against the nuclear program, the Department of Homeland Security also issued a national terrorism advisory.