Americans have this weird belief that Iran hates America because of who we are. The fact is, the Iranians have every right to hate America: the CIA took out their elected leader Mohammad Mosaddeq, re-installed the dictatorial shah, who then signed over 40% of their oil to US companies. Imagine if Iran took out president Eisenhower, installed their pro-Iranian dictator, then signed over 40% of our natural resources to Iran?
The CIA publicized documents admitting to this:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/cia-admits-role-1953-iranian-coupA historical narrative on it here:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cia-assisted-coup-overthrows-government-of-iran