From Fox News: While former Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki praised in a Persian-language television interview the issuance of a fatwa calling for the killing of U.S. President Donald Trump, his daughter is living in New York City with her husband — an Iranian diplomat serving at the permanent mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, Fox News digital confirmed.
Mottaki, who served as Iran’s foreign minister from 2005 to 2010 under then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and remains a prominent figure in Iran’s political establishment, said Iran’s Supreme Leader had determined that Trump was a criminal and suggested Iran’s judiciary should act, according to a video reviewed by Fox News Digital.
He also described as a “brave and significant act” a religious ruling calling for the killing of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Mottaki’s daughter, Zahra Assadi Nazari, is married to Nasser Assadi Nazari, who is listed as a third counselor at Iran’s mission to the United Nations in New York.
The report points to a similar incident in January, when “Emory University fired Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, the daughter of Iranian official Ali Larijani, from a teaching position after protests over her employment at the university’s medical school.”
Dear Americans,
Ali Ardeshir Larijani is a top-tier operative of the Islamic Republic’s power structure. He openly threatens the United States, your military, and your service members.
At the same time, his daughter, Fateme Ardeshir Larijani, lives and works in the U.S. as a… pic.twitter.com/Luso5VVMkP
— ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi (@__Injaneb96) January 15, 2026
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