Mike Pompeo, the United States Secretary of State says the Trump administration is looking into the issue of the family members of the Islamic Republic officials living in the United States.

In a video published on the Persian account of the Department of State, Pompeo says: “This issue that they (Islamic Republic officials) send their family members abroad bothers us too.”

He was responding to a question by an Iranian user who had asked: “Why isn’t the United States doing anything about the family members of the regime officials living in America?”

The State Secretary responded: “That’s a very good question. Think about what you just asked. You have the very people who are destroying the way of life for ordinary people all across Iran, sending their kids (abroad), because they’re very wealthy, because they have stolen from you, they have taken your money corruptly, in a way that has harmed good hardworking people of Iran.”

Among those officials, Masumeh Ebtekar, vice president in women’s affairs is arguably the most ironic case. Ebtekar was the spokesperson for the students who attacked the American embassy and took American diplomats hostage in 1979. Her son currently lives in the United States.

Pompeo stated that the fact that these officials send their children to the United States to enjoy our freedoms proves that “they (officials) know that their country is not good enough for their own people. It’s good enough for you (ordinary people), but it’s not good enough for their families.”

The issue of family members of the Islamic Republic officials living in other countries, including the United States, has become a hot button topic in social media, especially due to the fact that “death to America” has been the main chant of the Islamic Republic in the past 40 years.