That was indeed a very unfortunate beginning, Mrzzy. My condolences on the loss of your father.

And here was another unfortunate beginning at an earlier date:

1953 CIA and UK-backed coup in Iran to install the Shah and control Iran's oil

All the conflicts between America and Iran ever since that date can be traced back directly to that 1953 coup, planned in Washington and Whitehall, which ended a young parliamentary democracy, and replaced it with an autocratic dictator who served western oil and military interests in the region. It also ended the Iranian nation's nationalized control and ownership of their own oil sources, and handed that control over to privately owned western corporations such as BP. Iranians know this. They have not forgotten. That's why they finally revolted and threw out the Shah. Most Americans don't even know about the 1953 coup anymore, and their mass media don't remind them about it. The past does not even exist in the imperial mind, unless it can somehow serve the imperial cause. The imperial cause couldn't care less what happens to Iranians...but it does care about what happens to their oil!