Yes, that too...but I hear that there is actually a considerable fondness for western culture in Iran. Matter of fact, there always has been. The Iranians, if left to their own devices, would much rather get along well with westerners.

In any case, if people of a different culture have some religious customs that strike us as ridiculous or oppressive....well, I hardly feel that that is justification for threatening to invade them or bomb them. Their religion, weird as it may be, is their own business, not ours.

I mean, look, say they were surrounding the USA, having previously occupied Canada and Mexico in bloody invasions, and they were threatening to bomb you at any time....in order to get you to stop eating pork, stop your women from wearing short skirts, and stop executing your felons who are on death row.

Would you like that? Just as a theoretical situation, I mean? How would that strike you?