Those Friendly Iraninans

Once a friend of mine asked me what would happen to him as an American if he walked on streets of Tehran? I think Nicholas Kristof's article in the New York Times has the best answer; specially I like its final paragraph:

Oh, that one instance when I was treated inhospitably? That was in a teahouse near the Isfahan bazaar, where I was interviewing religious conservatives. They were warm and friendly, but a group of people two tables away went out of their way to be rude, yelling at me for being an American propagandist. So I finally encountered hostility in Iran — from a table full of young Europeans.