(October 27, 2022 at 10:50 am)Helios Wrote: No one in modern Iran has a reason to hate the US aside from those with a decades-old grudge or its leadership who use the American boogeyman to maintain control.
Not to derail this thread, but this is an extremely short-sighted view of the relationship between the two countries. Khomeini's rise to prominence, and later to the seat of highest power, was fueled by resentment of the shah specifically as an American puppet. Iranians of more libertine bent are rightfully angry that America gave such powerful impetus to such profoundly anti-democratic forces -- forces even more authoritarian than the shah they replaced.
That's all I'll say about the matter here in this thread, as I don't want to derail it.
