There may have been some truth to that at one time.
But a lot of water, and a lot of administrations have passed since then.
Iran once had the distinction of being a non-Sunni, non-Arab, secular Muslim state with good relations with Israel that would serve as a counter-balance to the rest of the Arab world. But those post-Mossadegh, pre-Ayatollah days are long past. The embassy capture changed all that, and our indignation (not surprising, or unjustified) and Iranian fanaticism and suspicion (not entirely unjustified, either) is going to make that relationship difficult to re-establish.