[Sir Francis Dashwood]

It's the mad mullahs , their leadership who hate America, but, the average person ( for the most part ) is actually pro-America, but, you won't know it from face value.

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...

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Well, actually, I meant the average Iranian citizen who is not mooslim.
I meet a few Persians here in the USA and they are the nicest people you would ever meet.
If the population were to be allowed to express their views and how they really feel in Iran, it would be like that gentleman who we all saw on ( LIVE TV ) in Baghdad who took that sledgehammer to Saddam's statue.
Where people don't realize it or not, around 500 BC is was the king of Persia who helped rebuild Jerusalem and who restored the religion of Judaism.