Disagree.
Persians were the ones who took hostages, remember? We backed the Iranian-equivalent of Saddam Hussein - the Shah of Iran, remember? Not to mention that we shat upon them in 1991. I'll bet they remember.
PBS had a show during the Iran/Iraq war. A reporter went to an Iraqi hospital (this was back in the 1980's at the height of the gassings, when Saddam was a good guy(tm)). At any rate, the reporter was able to interview a couple of wounded Iranian soldiers. The most telling part of the interview for me was when the soldiers said that (paraphrased without loss of intent), "America is the real enemy." The reporter was also startled and said, "But Iraqi soldiers have done this to you. You still hold that America is your real enemy? Worse than Iraq?" Neither hesitated when they replied in the affimative.
BL: you can't go into the ME without stepping on your dick.
bcnu,
Mikem
Osama bin Laden's brother could fly in US airspace 9/15/01, but I had to wait for FBI and CIA background checks, 'nuff said?