http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ir.html
Has anybody been there? What is it really like, versus what the media and government say it is. Is the US influencing the population to become more conservative and making them dislike us more?
I wasn't alive when the US embassy was overthrown, but the guy they had prior to it wasn't who the people wanted. Would they try and attack Iraq again if the US pulled out? Would they really use a nuclear bomb on Israel if they knew that 50 nuclear bombs would be launched at them a few minutes later?
In the book 1984, there is a never ending list of countries to go to war against. Is Iran just another country that our government wants us to fear because we know nothing about them and they are different?