The CIA folks were there in Iran way back in the 1950s too, Bobert. And what were they doing there? They were arranging the overthrow of an elected government which had had the bad sense to nationalize the country's oil industry (previously run by and for the benefit of UK oil companies). That government was replaced by absolute dictatorial rule by a western-backed monarch, the Shah. This has not been forgotten by Muslims, but it's barely a vague memory to most Americans, if they even know about it at all anymore.

Like I said, this war started a long time ago.