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Because Iran has rebuffed direct attempts to control it by the US(once with UK help) twice now since the end of WW2.

They're not friendly with the west because the west has not been at all nice to them.

In contrast to the Saudis, who were basically ignored as the west focused on Iraq and Iran until they were too big and influencial to take over, so the western elite had to work with them.

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