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60Min II: Props to So. Cal Iranians/Persians!

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Stark

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I don't know if anyone watched 60 minutes II last night, but they had a great story on a group of Iranians living in So. Cal who are helping dispel the "Axis of Evil" image many Iranians have to deal with.

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He hired Ali Dean, an Iranian comedian with a talent for impersonating ayatollahs. He'd been surviving in Hollywood by playing terrorists. Thanks to technology, NITV and Ali Dean took on the mullahs in a language they understood.

?They hate me because they don?t like nobody impersonate them,? Dean says. ?To them, they are untouchable. To me, there is no untouchable.?

Dean had no trouble finding material to play a character he calls Mullah Hajii. All he had to do was study videotapes of the sermons given by the real ayatollahs back in Iran.

It?s not hard to make fun of because ?it?s funny already. It?s nonsense,? Dean says.

Four nights a week, Dean?s Mullah Hajii takes live calls from Iranian viewers and dispenses guidance like any ayatollah would.

One caller from Tehran says Iranians have been crying for 23 years, and asks, ?How much longer must we cry??

?Another 50 years,? bellows Mullah Hajii. ?Crying is good for you.?

So is smiling. And the people of Iran are beginning to do that. ?They?re dying to smile,? says Zia.?They?re dying to dance. Look, the Iranian government wouldn?t see Iranians happy. They cannot take it.?

And the mullahs really couldn?t take what NITV did on Sept. 11. Hours after the attacks, Zia took to the air with a message for Iranian youth: ?To show your feeling and share your feelings with American people, come to the Mossani square in Tehran and bring your candle.?

They brought their candles and their voices, shouting, ?Death to terrorists.? Six thousand demonstrators were called to the streets of Tehran by Zia Atabay in North Hollywood, the only show of support for America in the Islamic world.
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Very interesting. Honestly, they have a right to be angry at this point. Very violent factions have hijacked the image of their heritage and their religion. Because of that, people change their idea of them.
 
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