Whatever happened, the incident is likely a product of the same sad misperceptions that it will also help to entrench: the Iranian belief that Westerners maliciously distort Iran to make its people seem like murderous cave-dwellers, and the Western belief that Iranians are angrily and violently anti-Western. Believe it or not, sometimes Iranian people do things for reasons other than hatred of the West. And not every Iranian is out to kill us. A significant number of Iranians actually think the West is pretty OK.
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