"'Persia' makes me think of a great empire. 'Iran' just sounds like some random third world country. Their nuclear program would seem a lot scarier had Reza Pahlavi not made this terrible PR blunder."
"It has created a confused people. They glorify a long dead civilisation that culturally they inherited nothing from. Something similar happened in Egypt and Greece from the looks of it."
"[Arabia] was formerly part of Persia. The men have large noses and black beards. In the Sui Period [AD 581-618], a man [Mohammad] of the western people [hu], a Persian subject, was guarding flocks in the mountains near Medina."