Saagar Enjeti

military to go in and settle those scores.

That's not what we're here for.

Nobody signed up for that.

Yeah, I think so.

So we also looked into their asylum claim.

So we'll roll through that.

So on to the other State Department claim, namely that the two arrested women had filed a false claim for asylum,

which was undercut, they say, by the fact that they had visited Iran in subsequent years.

So friends of the family and the family themselves say that they had indeed been forced to leave Iran under duress, and it happened after Serena had taken part in a public dance performance in 2012 when she was about 12 years old.

What happened is that she was in Turkey on vacation, and she competed in this dance competition for the satellite channel TV Persia.

It's illegal to watch TV Persia in Iran, but people can get it anyway.

And it's the kind of soft cultural influence that the U.S.

government funds.

I don't know if they funded TV Persia at the time, but either way, when it aired back in Iran, it went viral and not in a good way.

All hell came down on her and her mom.

She was expelled from her public school.

Then not long after that,

expelled from her next school, a private school, when the scandal resurfaced.

Her mother was attacked on occasion, and they continued getting death threats.

So here's one of the performances that went viral and aired on TV Persia.