A local sponsor speaks after he said that the Iranian couple looking for asylum had been detained by masked federal agents in Los Angeles earlier this week. One of the individuals suffered a medical emergency during the meeting, which was taken on the video.
Reverend Ara Torosian of the Cornerstone Church in the city’s neighborhood in the city said that the couple, who were part of his group for nearly a year, called him to their near home on Tuesday, where immigration agents approached them.
“I didn’t see something.” I asked, “Can I see him signed by a judge? “She said,” Torusian told Kimberly Cheng from KTLA: “I didn’t see me.” That was the moment when they took satisfaction inside. Mahasheed was attacked by panic. I was hopeless at the moment. “
The mobile phone video from Torosian shows that federal agents reside the woman screaming and collapsing, prompting the priest to participate with the officers to allow them to leave.
“Let her go! It’s sick! Call 911!” Torusian hears screaming while the officers restricted his arrival to the woman screaming. “Why are you doing this, comrades? They came to compensate from Iran!”
Footage of a woman from Iran suffering from a medical emergency appears while she is detained by federal agents in Los Angeles. June 2025. (Ara Torosian) Footage of a woman from Iran suffering from a medical emergency appears while she is detained by federal agents in Los Angeles. June 2025. (Ara Torosian) Footage of a woman from Iran suffering from a medical emergency appears while she is detained by federal agents in Los Angeles. June 2025. (Ara Torosian) Footage of a woman from Iran suffering from a medical emergency appears while she is detained by federal agents in Los Angeles. June 2025. (Ara Torosian)
The American border agents who are imprisoned, Torusian, remains a distance, and threaten to arrest him if he tries to object to the road.
“You are very cruel!” Torosian shouted on the agents, and asked them if they had seen news about Iran recently. “They came here for freedom, not this. Shame on you. I know that you are doing your work, but shame on you.”
Women can watch the video held on the ground by one agent with others who watch while wrist, screaming and appears to be facing a breathing problem.
“It was in good health. Nothing like that before. I didn’t know her medical background,” said Torusian.
The Ministry of Internal Security later confirmed that the woman had been transferred to the hospital, treatment of a medical case, and she was released. The officials said that the couple is now in reserving enforcement and removal operations (ERO), a section of migration and customs enforcement (ICE).
in statementA spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security said, “The border patrol agents arrested two Iranian citizens present in the United States, both of whom were reported as subjects of national security services,” and described the incident as a targeted enforcement process.
Torosian refused to describe.
“They have no criminal background. They do not do bad things in the United States,” he said. “Even if there is something, this is not the way to do this.”
The priest also said that another couple of his church – alongside their young child – was transferred to the federal reservation on Monday, just one day before the accident on Tuesday. In total, he says that five members of his group have been detained this week.
He said, “I am sad.” “But I will continue to fight for them.”