As hard as it for for Americans to accept or understand these days, their country os the light of the world. There is, all the incredible imperfections notwithstanding, no other country that forms any kind of beacon of hope, that gives off any signal that humanity might have the will to self-govern.
For all its terrible flaws, the US is still the nation that went The Distance, abolished slavery, created a world to which everyone could relate, without any need for gods or hierarchies.
That in practice it is all very dirty as well is because this is Earth, not Heaven.
So yes, all people in the world are impressed with US culture, including the Iranians.
But Iran has been faring war since time immemorial, even Steiner records an ancient war between Iran and "Turan" - here is a list of wars Iran has been fighting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Iran
Currently they are at an endless war against Israel through having Syria as a proxy state. There is another vert dark war they've been faring which I found out about and don't want to talk about much. But it is an extremely bellicose nation. They were also the ones sending in suicide bombers by the thousands into Iraq to kill as many civilians as they could after the US had made its invasion. People would try to claim thats not an act of war since "the US started it" but that is absurd.
Iran further, through Hezbollah, showed me personally that they like to blow up their own children. And of course, it is still the same nation that once was the Persian Empire, which was constantly usurping other states.