What many Americans fail to realize is that the animus of the Iranians against the US is based upon our (with Britain's assistance)
orchestrating a coup against their first democratically elected leader in 1953. They don't "hate us because of our freedoms," as the GOP would have you believe. It has much more to do with us deposing their democratically elected leader so that we could maintain control over their oil, while installing the Shah and his very nasty secret police,
SAVAK. It could be very easily argued that we're responsible for the Ayatollahs ultimately taking control.