Iranians hold in extremely low regard: the U.S. government, ISIS, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and international terrorism, but their opinions of the American people are remarkably higher than their opinions of the American government —
they don't believe that America's government represents the American people, at all. They think it represents instead the American aristocracy (which it
does). And they detest ISIS and other terrorist and terrorist-supporting groups for the same reason they detest bin Laden:
they don't share the jihadists' view of what Islam is. And yet, as Shiites, instead of (as the Saudis are) Sunnis, they also are more committed to their religion than they are to their country, whereas the citizens of the Sunni nations (especially Saudi Arabia), which is
where the 9/11 terrorists and
almost all other Islamic terrorists come from, view themselves more as citizens of their particular Sunni Sharia-law nation, than as being citizens of any particular nation.
Before the detailed poll-results showing Iranians' opinions of the U.S., and of ISIS and other jihadist groups, are presented, the context behind these Iranian opinions — the source of them — will be described here, because
Iranians' fear and loathing of the U.S. government is largely driven by what the U.S. government did to Iran, and by the U.S. government and its aristocracy's 'news' (propaganda) media systematically misinforming Americans to fear both Iranians and the Iranian government (and so, for example, Iran is on President
Trump's — originally Obama's — 7-nation banned list, reflecting the viewpoint of the U.S. government and its 'news' media, despite the actual fact that Iran had nothing to do with 9/11 nor with any other terrorism or aggression of any sort in either the U.S. or Europe), and because
Iranians despise the U.S. government on account of actual and continuing U.S. aggression against Iran. In other words: to understand Iranians' low opinions about the U.S. government, one needs to understand the relevant history.
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