Marines in a truck bombing in Beirut. It's been a downhill battle ever since the first Iranian crisis in 1979 when 52 US Embassy workers were held hostage for 444 days. Americans, however, hardly took kind to their tactics. The event destroyed President Carter, and any future reconciliation with the U.S. Animosity is easily a two-way street. But I hope that this is exactly what we will be able to surpass.
American culture goes deeper than our leadership, be it good or bad.
The U.S. is a superpower with a reputation to be reckoned with. So while America has no problems letting the world know who we are, Iran does. Therefore it's lost under the guise of an evil and bad place that should be left untouched so as not to contaminate the rest of the world. Personally, I remember a time when America dispelled the same stereotypes about Blacks in America. We were not even considered citizens, and treated like less than human.