Tehran dubbed the United States "the Great Satan" and accused it of seeking "global hegemony".
BRAVELY, Muhammad Khatami stretched out his finger-tips, even to the Great Satan itself.
America may be the Great Satan to Iranian officials, but the Great Satan commands a kind of respect that the European states lack.
When Iran knocked the United States out of the 1998 World Cup, the defeat of the Great Satan was widely celebrated.
Even Ayatollah Khomeini, who wanted to deny the Great Satan Iran's bounty, learnt that he could not feed his people without selling oil.
But he's not John Brown saying God himself told me to start this war, and he's not an ayatollah saying death to the Great Satan.
For the first time, the conservative establishment has admitted what it once acknowledged only in private: that Iran can no longer afford to snub the Great Satan.
The fears that bred crusading hatreds were a mirror-image of today's resentments of the great Satan of the West: fears of a culture, labelled alien, of superior wealth and might.
It is often just a cacophonous cry of protest against the West in general, and American government in particular fuelled by impotent rage over the Great Satan's cultural and geopolitical supremacy.
This was also the time when Islamic extremists, including Sadat's killers, began to set their sights on America as the Great Satan, with Israel relegated to the lesser role of devil's helper.
He could offer full-throated or even material support to the opposition, but this would probably backfire: the regime would then be able to portray its opponents as stooges of the Great Satan.
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When he hasn't been too busy championing the Khmer Rouge and Josef Stalin, and attacking the US as the Great Satan, Chomsky has devoted much time and energy to calling for Israel's eradication and defending Palestinian and Hizbullah terrorists.
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The main enemy - the "Great Satan" -- for Iran's regime remains the United States.
They also are inclined to target the United States -- the 'Great Satan' -- for invective and violent action.
But the most politically charged match of the tournament may have created the most goodwill, as Iran faced the one-time 'Great Satan', the United States.
President Muhammad Khatami has welcomed people-to-people talk, but has not felt strong enough, in the face of the hostility of his implacably Great-Satan-hating adversaries, to extend this welcome to official negotiations.
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