Abraham's tribe was from Ur, just south of Babylon. Not far at all from Iran. Does this idiot really want them to come back and be his next door neighbor?
I think "this idiot" is anything but. I think he knows exactly what he's saying, and is counting upon two things:
a. Most westerners are ignorant of anything regarding history or geography, unless it involves Angelina Jolie's vagina or they've been told that bombs have to be dropped on it.
b. Most Muslims know even less than the typical westerner (especially about Angelina's privates), and even when presented with fact somehow manage to fall back on thjeir psychosis: any archelogical or historical evidence you could show them that proves that Jews originated in what they consider "Arab" or "Persian" land, would immediately be dismissed as a "Mossad plot".
But he says these things in the first place not make any factual case for anythign in particular, but to scare the bejesus out of the West in the hopes of crowbarring concessions from them on a whole range of issues.
Primary amongst those issues: how to keep the West (and in particular, Western Culture) out of Iran. That is what Islam fears more than any military force; an invasion of MTV, Home Shopping Networks, Desperate Housewives, and transparent government on C-SPAN.