[EDINVA]

How does being born to American parents running a hospital for the poor in Iran make her Iranian-American? Being involved with the corrupt Chicago political machine is enough to attack, going after her for where she was born doesn’t make sense.

[ArmyTeach]

It doesn’t make her an ‘Iranian-American’ any more than my daughter - born in Germany to American born citizens - is German-American. When we returned to the States and went to the citizenship office, at age 3 she proudly announced herself as “Natalie Rose Hart d’America.”

[kenavi]

How does being born to American parents running a hospital for the poor in Iran make her Iranian-American?

Right. Americans are working all over the globe, often for peanuts, to help people in other countries, including where the host governments aren't friendly to us. (In contrast, Iran's government was friendly to us when this woman's parents worked there.) This work is often church-sponsored, although they rarely proselytize. They embody American individual voluntarism, in contrast to Obama-style paid, ideologically-based agitation.