I agree. Many of the Iranians that I met when I was in the Navy in the mid-1970's and when I went to college in the late Seventies to mid-eighties seemed pretty darned westernized to me, and I was very good friends with more than a few of them. They harbored no hatred of the USA that I could see, and seemed to enjoy being in the USA, and enjoyed trying to figure out the cultural differences, often in quite comedic ways.
I knew of two Iranian students who were rather angry and sullen guys. I disliked them both, and perhaps those two fit into the mold others in this forum describe.
"The marked increase in immigration can be explained through two important events. First due to the substantial wealth of the country prior to the 1979 revolution, many families and the government chose to send students abroad for higher level education. By 1977, Iran had more students abroad than any other country in the world at 227,497. By 1979 in the US alone, there were 51,310 college students, ranking first amongst foreign nationalities. Second, after the revolution in 1979, not only did many of these students opt to remain in the US, but many of their relatives also decided to join them, later becoming naturalized citizens (or residents)."