I probably should go back and find his exact words, but one of them went so far as to say he would welcome a return to their "Persian roots" (meaning Zoroaster) and the throwing off of Islam!!!

And EM, about that racial appearance: A few nights ago we were watching something like "Frontline" about a Canadian woman reporter's covert trip into Iran as a tourist with a real purpose of obtaining the truth about a suspicious earlier death of a Canadian there. She had sneak interviews with some dissident students. One of their leaders is in prison, and he is as eloquent and daring a proponent of democracy as you would have found in the American revolution, but of course he couldn't talk to her, although his followers did. Anyway they showed a still photo of him, a real handsome guy (to these eyes anyway).