Discussing Iran's shattered economy, Millspaugh's book sympathetically portrayed Iran and Iranians, but heaped criticism on the Iranian bureaucracy.

It portrays Iran as a hermetically intolerant society in which dissenters and common criminals alike are subject to summary executions, degrading torture and routine flogging.

Finally, in an election year, there is nothing to gain from portraying Iran as benign.

In addition, the United States has portrayed Iran as a major military threat because of what Washington calls its campaign to build longer-range missiles and chemical weapons.

This national identity served to portray Iran as a nation like European nations, while at the same time distancing Iranian patriots from other Muslim nations and from religious leaders.

Trying to sanction Irans oil exports is an act of war in anybodies book.please stop trying to portray Iran as the aggressor,it certainly is not.

They also blame the Israeli Government for fanning the recent alarm by portraying Iran as the most dangerous threat to both the region's and Israel's security.

During the gulf conflict, Administration officials consistently portrayed Iran as a responsible country that would not take Iraq's side.

The Iranian government responded that "the Western media empire is trying to portray Iran as an anti-Semitic country".