U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has stunningly released an Iranian national who was held in Blount County last year. During a multi-state ICE enforcement operation in June 2025, Ribvar Karimi was taken into custody.
Karimi was freed from ICE custody, according to Cullman Daily. The outlet claims that information about the conditions of his release and the current state of any pending immigration proceedings has not been fully revealed. ICE detained Karimi and 11 other Iranian nationals in June in Locust Fork, Blount County, according to DHS.
Ribvar Karimi served four years in the Iranian Army before obtaining a visa to enter the United States.
This comes as the war in Iran continues to drag on.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt strongly condemned the dishonest mainstream media for promoting Iranian regime propaganda and falsely asserting that President Trump had accepted Tehran’s absurd 10-point “wish list” as a legitimate deal.
Steven Cheung, Assistant to the President and White House Communications Director, criticized a media outlet for spreading the fake news regarding President Trump’s supposed agreement with Iran and the so-called “10-point plan.”
“You have no idea what the f**k you’re talking about you loser. Go back to whatever hole you crawled out of because you clearly can’t read,” Cheung said in an X post in response to a post from self-described “socialist” and “antifascist” journalist Owen Jones.
In his own X post, Jones laid out the 10-point plan which was published by Iranian state media and had absolutely zero confirmation from independent informed sources.
“Have no doubt: This is the biggest strategic defeat suffered by the US since its emergence as a superpower,” Jones wrote in his post. The White House has repeatedly stated that the Iranian claims are false.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also addressed the information on Wednesday, making it plain that whoever was reporting the Iranian 10-point plan as legitimate in any way, shape, or form was doing a disservice to the American people.
“I’ve seen a lot of inaccurate coverage today from the media about these negotiations and these plans already, so let me be clear and correct the record,” she began. “The Iranians originally put forward a 10-point plan that was fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and completely discarded.
“It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating team. Many outlets in this room have falsely reported on that plan as being acceptable to the United States, and that is false,” she stated.
She added:
The President’s red lines—namely, the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran—have not changed. And the idea that President Trump would ever accept an Iranian wish list as a deal is completely absurd.
The President will only make a deal that serves the best interests of the United States of America, and he and his negotiating team will focus on this effort over the next two weeks—so long as the Strait of Hormuz remains open, with no limitations or delays.
These extraordinarily sensitive and complex negotiations will take place behind closed doors over the course of the next two weeks.
I would strongly advise the media against running with narratives that have no basis in fact. What Iran says publicly—or feeds to all of you in the press—is much different than what they communicate privately to the United States, the President, and his team.
Never underestimate President Trump’s ability to successfully advance America’s interests and broker peace. President Trump has a proven track record of achieving good deals on behalf of the United States and the American people, and he will only accept one that puts America first.