"AlQuaeda does recruit in Iran" - I'm sure that's true; and it's also true that it recruits in the UK and probabaly the USA and definitely (and very succesfully) in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

"...why the U.S. has had no dialogue with Iran regarding the plight of women in Iran for the last 25 years." My understanding is that the USA has had very little dialogue with Iran about anything much over the past 25 years.

And of course I don't claim to have "vast knowlege of Iran" - but enough to know that there's not much in common between the Iranian variety of fundamentalism and the Al Qaida style. That doesn't mean that I'm claiming the Iranian system isn't pretty badly screwed up.