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...United States has left Iranians with an "America complex," a mixture of feelings of admiration, resentment and betrayal. But the events of Sept. 11 shocked ordinary Iranians and their leaders into new and perhaps more honest political and personal sentiments about the nation known in Iran as the "Great Satan...
...Outside the decaying former American embassy building in downtown Tehran - due to open next month as a "museum of global arrogance" - two university students waited for a bus. They eyed the ghoulish slogans painted on the wall: "America is a Great Satan" and "Iran will crush the U.S. under its foot." Sniffed one of the students, Maryam Ghasemi: "'Under our foot? Now the U.S. is lodged in our hearts...
...they should accept the regime that is being imposed upon them. Israel, a tiny polity with a magnified image, is the answer to an autocrats political predicament. Problems with public health? Israel is polluting the water supply. Homeless refugees? Israel usurps Arab lands. Restless youth? Israels democracy is a satanic influence. The deflection of so much political dissatisfaction and so many real and escalating social problems into aggression against Israel eventually reaches fanatical proportions, fueling apocalyptic scenarios of destroying the Satan, and the protector of Satanthe United States...
...term "crusade" refers to the era when they were colonized by medieval European warriors who believed they could hasten Christ's return by capturing Jerusalem. In fact, it is precisely because of those associations that Osama bin Laden refers to the U.S. not as "imperialists" or even "the Great Satan," but simply as "crusaders" - casting himself as a latter-day Salah el-Din (or Saladdin), the man who eventually drove the Christian occupiers from Jerusalem...
...Dream: A Meditation on Hope: "If we fail to contribute to some good beyond ourselves, we condemn ourselves to the hell of loneliness." He notes that "the highest aspiration" of our "soul-starving present...is to keep the body forever young." He dares to use terms like destiny and Satan and still show his face in Manhattan, where Heaven and Hell are merely the names of competing downtown bars...