[Seizethecarp]

There are Iranian-American citizens fighting and dying in the US armed forces. I personally don't regard Malihi’s ancestry to have any bearing on his decision. Being a Democrat appointee is fair game, but not his parents or national origin, IMO.

My neighbors in Plano were Iranian-Americans and they were wonderful people whose kids played with my kids at both houses. Their son was an honors graduate at UT, IIRC. While it was not uncommon to see Muslim women with only their faces showing, the wife in this family would wear shorts and worked for the City of Plano.

[little jeremiah]

Read the whole link that FARS posted. If Judge Malihi, for instance, has relatives in Iran, they could have been threatened. There are more thoughts too, well worth reading the link.