I agree completely. I was in college just before and during the takeover, and had proud Persians seated on each side of me in a Political Science class. Great guys, both of them, left stranded by the upheaval. They were "into" their political scene, and we talked a lot about it.
I was in touch with one of them briefly a year ago, and he's involved with things happening within Iran, and excited about them.
Would you proclaim your pro-America -pro-west if you had the Mullahs as your government and lived in Iran ?
No way, until things came to a head with a chance of success. It's a very tightly-controlled regime down to the neighborhoods, not a nice place to be if you long for freedom.
I would agree to a certain extent, at least with one particular fellow I know personally...
He came to the USA from Iran as a small boy with his parents. As a young teenager, he ran away to avoid returning to Iran with them. He wears pointy boots, Stetson hats, chews, drives a GMC 4WD with rifle racks in the back window, likes that Texas honky-tonk rockabilly music and you would think he is a Mexican or Native American cowpoke if you got a look at him.
He told me to never trust the Islamics. The sight of a mosque makes him cringe and grit his teeth. When seeing it that day in his face as we drove past one in Detroit on the way to a hockey game, I asked. It was a ten minute rant from a usually quiet, unassuming fellow I will never forget. He seriously hates the religion...