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to mend fences with Iran, critics notwithstanding  PARIS -- It's
not only most Israelis, led by their Prime Minister, Benjamin
Netanyahu, and the policy-community hawks in Washington and
acolytes of AIPAC in the Congress who hate the interim nuclear
agreement signed by Iran in November with the United Nations
Security Council "5 plus one."  So do the leaders of the
paramilitary Basij force in Iran and other Iranians who support
a hard and hostile line toward the Great Satan and the UN
diplomats who collaborated in setting up what many in the West,
and no doubt in Iran, hope will prove a first step in
reconciliation between the Iranians and the Western community.
Why do Americans hate the Iranians? Most Americans probably do
not. It's the American government that has a grudge against
Iran. That's because the American government was made a fool of
in its dealings with Iran. And the U.S. government nurses
grudges. (Think of Fidel Castro.)  In the I