Yep, Iranian.
He has 5 kids, 3 boys and 2 girls. None are turbaned or chadored. His eldest son is a US Marine, currently deployed to Iraq. His oldest daughter has babysat for us a few times, and I have no hesitation leaving my 3 month old with her.
They try to live their religion in their hearts, without rigid adherance to some goat-fornicating Mullah's fatwas.
That's good because when they become "good" Muslims they become a menace.
Funny thing, the Wahhabis hate the Shiites, consider them heretics and would force them to either convert to Wahhabism or die. The Taliban massacred entire villages of Shiites in Afghanistan.