Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy noticeTexas Senator Ted Cruz has been mocked online after suggesting that the U.S. should be arming protesters in Iran amid the ongoing ICE chaos in Minnesota that has seen two demonstrators shot dead by federal agents. “We should be arming the protesters in Iran. For the Iranian people to overthrow the Ayatollah – a tyrant who routinely chants ‘death to America’ – would make America much, much safer,” Cruz wrote on X Tuesday. You can’t make this s**t up folks,” wrote one user, while another added: “The jokes write themselves.”“We should be ARMING protesters in Iran.