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gorgepir said:

Well the way I see it, during Bill Clinton's times there was a huge improvement in the relations. The Iranians began working towards democracy (slowly I might add) and the US began easing sanctions (they removed the sanctions on drugs and food for example) and even accepted responsibility for a coup that removed a democratic goverment in Iran about 50 years ago (one of the few democratic governments).
Then suddenly George Bush comes. After the 9,11 attacks Iran was one of the first (if not first) countries to condemn the attack. The president at the time (Khatami) was trying to show to the other branches of the government that we don't need confrontation and we can live peacfully with others. When the United States attacked Afghanistan, they attacked via air, while Iran provided the support for the ground operations. They even worked together at that point. Everything was getting better, suddenly George Bush said (and I really don't know why) that Iran belonged to the Axis of Evil. Sure they were bad before but they were getting better and co-operating. After that everyone began to redicule Khatami and when his presidency ended, a (idiot) become the next president with promises to improve the economy (which he failed).
The main difference I see with Bush and Clinton was that with Clinton we had a chance to end this, but Bush needed an enemy so he made Iran to be that enemy.

Therefore the cause for the hatred now is that we were moving towards democracy, and when Bush announced us part of the Axis of Evil it ended all our hopes to become a democracy because the hardliners came back.

There's no Denying it when Bill was in the office things were much better then they are now at least the American side of things, it’s nice to know that his outreach stretched farther out then the USA.

Now here’s where it gets confusing to me because he was elected before 9/11 so was it as soon as he won that the of people Afghanistan started disliking him (maybe for what his father did in the past perhaps?) or was it something entirely different?

And last if it was not Bush who won the election instead lets say Al gore won the election do you think that Iran would’ve stayed on course to become more of democracy Country?