When we read of someone spouting off like this, with this degree of divergence from reality, our first instinct should be to follow the money. I'd bet a case of Guinness that someone is paying this guy to destabilize the region.
What pains me is that this, um, person..., took over in part from Bishop M. Tehqani-Tafti, the first (and so far only) Iranian bishop of Iran (author of "The Hard Awakening").
Night and day, the two. And the Middle-East deserves better than what it has today. IMHO.