Iranians need narcotics, and the US is by far the world's biggest drug trafficker:
Sheesheh – crystal meth – has exploded on the Iranian drug market and, for the first time, overtaken heroin to become the country's second most popular drug (opium still tops the list). Meth production in the country has been expanding at an astonishing rate. According to a 2013 study by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Iranian government first reported manufacture of the drug just six years ago, when four production facilities were seized. By 2012, though, Iran was the world's fourth highest importer of pseudoephedrine, the main precursor chemical used in the production of crystal meth. Research carried out by the Centre for Preventative Welfare shows that over half a million Tehranis between the ages of 15 and 45 have used it at least once.
The country's drug problem is not new; Iran has one of the highest rates of addiction in the world and the interior minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, announced recently that some six million Iranians are affected by problems related to drug addiction.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/breaking-bad-tehran-iran-crystal-meth-methamphetamine
See? We've got more in common with them than most Americans think.
Now you may counter my assertions with false claims that the US is not the world's biggest drug trafficker, but you would be wrong. The US encouraged the flow of opium from Burma when we were in Vietnam, and now we control the flow of opium from Afghanistan. We embargo everything going into Iran, so why aren't we stopping the flow of opium and meth precursors? My guess is that someone in the US government has greased the skids to ensure that Iranians get all the meth and opium they could possibly want.
After all, illegal drugs are one of the chief pillars of our destabilization strategies.
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