My Iranian wife (lived there until well into adulthood) had to live several years in Germany until she understood that Israel was a democracy with civil liberti

My Iranian wife (lived there until well into adulthood) had to live several years in Germany until she understood that Israel was a democracy with civil liberties and rule of law and had a real reason to fear the Iranians. She recognized that she had been under propaganda for so long that she subconsciously believed that Israel was Satan and had to learn the real threat was the other way round.