Yes, Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran.
But to American parents.
So, should we focus on her being supposedly “Iranian”, or should we talk instead about her actual documented actions that have harmed this country?
“So, should we focus on her being supposedly “Iranian”, or should we talk instead about her actual documented actions that have harmed this country?”
You have created a false dichotomy: either-or.
By your simplistic reasoning, the Left is quite right to advocate completely ignoring Obama’s lifelong communist associations, and, even more, to ignore his Islamic associations; after all, he is not a card-carrying member of the Communist party (like Frank Marshall Davis), nor a direct associate of the Muslim Brotherhood (like Mehdi Alhassani), so we should focus on his documented actions that have harmed this country.
Guess what? A person’s history often - usually - gives insight into the motives behind the actions of an individual, and allow reasonable prediction of likely future actions.
This is just the kind of context-free analysis that allows the propagandists to sternly proclaim, after yet another Muslim atrocity, that there is no evidence of association with Islam. It is also the kind of pseudo-reasoning that allows TSA agents to treat an eighty-year-old American woman in a wheel chair as being just as likely to be a terrorist as a twenty-year-old Iranian woman in a burqa.
Context is crucial to understanding nearly everything and everyone.
Given that Iran is a totalitarian regime that is a leading supporter of Islamic Jihad, and is fanatically dedicated to indoctrinating anyone in its sphere, it is not irrelevant - in the context of her known advocacies and associates - that Valerie Jarrett is of Iranian birth.
Jarrett was not born in Switzerland; she was born in Iran. It matters, when taken in the context of everything she has said and done.
It is not either-or.
I reject your conclusion.