"While the Mullahs were in power, schoolboys were heavily influenced by recruiters for terrorist organizations, including Al Qaida."

Get this learned off by heart: fundamentalist Sunnis, and particularly Wahabis, hate Shias as much as they hate Yanks. Al Qaida could not, and would not, recruit among Shias.

However, Iranian Kurds are mostly Sunni, and also desire independence from Iran. It's quite probable that AQ have been recruiting there, as they were among Kurds in Iraq before the war- this was used ludicrously to prove collusion between Saddam and AQ when in fact it was evidence of the opposite. You can't blame the odious Iranian government for their enemies' actions. But to Americans, all ragheads are the same.