Babak B. and Arash Aramesh

TEHRAN — Iran is responding harshly to the U.S.–sponsored nuclear summit, which opened April 12 in Washington. The state-run media is filled with articles about an impending threat from the West – an attempt to alert Iranian society that, at least according to Iran’s leaders, the country is again a victim of Western aggression.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went as far as to declare that the world leaders attending the summit were “stupid” and “retarded.”