“Local Iranians React To Death Of Soleimani”

“I was so happy, so excited when I heard the news."

I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect headline. It incapsulates so much of what I’m exploring with Immigrants as a Weapon. In this case, it’s the selective use of an immigrant community to justify and drum up support for what has long been a goal of America’s political establishment: to destabilize and overthrow the government of Iran.

The fact that C…