Reply #5: Do it. You'll learn a lot more than the hate-mongering media ever want you learn.

[ConsAreLiars]

Things like Iranians are no less human than Americans. Maybe even more, since they have had 50 years to learn that their mass media is a propaganda operation, while so many here are easily brainwashed into the sort of fear and paranoia your post suggests. Unlike you, they have a lot of practice in understanding the difference and even antagonism between the people and their governments. Scott Ritter visited a year or so ago. He was a little surprised that government agents didn't follow him around and such, being a high profile type, and many indy documentary producers have visited and traveled freely with no reason to become scared for their safety.

You will be able travel as freely and safely as in Europe, and like there, you will find friends, but more than that, you will shed some of the bigotry and blinders that led to that post.