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What it says about the US is that people are free to have ideas and to share them. Sure some are total lunacy. Some are "all the right notes, not necessarily in the right order" and, bearing in mind that the US government has had plenty of covert operations and secret technologies whizzing around (Stealth Fighters for example) some are probably more fact than fiction.
That Iranians may wish to believe them is a combination of a lack of other information - how come they can access a wacky theory about September 11th 2001, but not research their own facts? Or that they are plausible to them - which comes from a culture of misinformation about the US - as well as some historical US dodgy dealings.
However if you are going to start clamping down on wacky fiction (which is what most conspiracy theories are) then you have to shut down childrens' imaginations, most novelists and Hollywood.
And when you do that, people in far off lands will start saying "So, the US government is afraid that the real truth will get out...."
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