On Tuesday, Instagram removed a fake account that appeared to belong to Voice of America Persian, a branch of the U.S. state-funded news outlet Voice of America.

Before Instagram deleted the account, it already had spread an unsupported claim that Zeinab Soleimani, a daughter of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, is a U.S. citizen.

Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week.

A spokesperson for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services didn’t confirm or deny that Zeinab Soleimani is an American citizen, citing policy that prevents the agency from commenting on individual cases. Regardless, we couldn’t find evidence to back up the claim.

Did 2,500 Iranians receive U.S. citizenship as part of nuclear deal negotiations in 2015?

Back in 2015, the Obama administration worked with Iran to reach an agreement to limit the country’s nuclear program, which Trump later withdrew from.

In 2018, two months after Trump announced plans to pull out of the nuclear agreement with Iran, Fox News reported that the Obama administration had given 2,500 Iranians U.S. citizenship as part of the negotiations. The source of the information was an unreliable Persian-language news outlet called Fars.

After the report, factchecking organization Snopes found that the notion that 2,500 Iranians received U.S. citizenship in connection with the nuclear deal was false.

The Fox News story also named two U.S. residents from Iran, Ali Fereydoun and Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani, who are relatives of Iranian officials. But the report said, “There is no suggestion either of these people received citizenship in the wake of the Iranian nuclear deal.”

Snopes didn’t find evidence to support or dispute that Iranian officials or their relatives received citizenship or travel visas as part of the nuclear deal negotiations.

This week, some of the misinformation surrounding Zeinab Soleimani claimed that her alleged U.S. citizenship was connected to the nuclear agreement.

Is Zeinab Soleimani an American citizen?

The fake Voice of America Instagram account said that when Zeinab Soleimani spoke at her father’s funeral, she claimed to be a U.S. citizen. However, nonpartisan reports on her comments suggest she did not say that.

We also couldn’t find evidence to back up the idea that Zeinab Soleimani is an American citizen, so our final verdict is that this claim is false.

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