That's interesting about that Persian board you went to.  Were they "free persians" or persians living in Iran?  Yeah. They were Persians living mostly in America and Europe. They didn't out and out ban me, they just restricted my activity from the "politics and current events" forum. I could still post things in the "sports", "literature" and other forums. I pestered the mods about it for a while but no one ever responded to my pm's or email messages. Clearly, I was not wanted there! Anyways, they were free persians, but there was a fair amount of those who had utter disgust for the IRI (Islamic Republic of Iran), but there were also some on there who seemed to be supporters. Actually, speaking of PR, the whole reason I sought out such a forum had nothing to do with the forum specifically, but I had just seen the movie Transformers at the time, last summer/fall, and noticed a couple instances in that movie of what I thought to be subtle anti-Iranian propaganda. For example, one of the military-brass dudes referred to what we in USA commonly know as the "Persian Gulf" as the "Arabian Gulf". Maybe I am ignorant about this subject but didn't we engage in the Persian Gulf Wars. Who outside of the Arabian Peninsula refers to it as the Arabian Gulf????? Anyways, it was very subtle, but I just was curious if anyone out there in the Internet picked up on it (simple Google Searches). And surely, the folks at that particular Persian forum did. Whether it was really propaganda or not, your guess is as good as mine, but it sure caught my attention!

Scipio, I didn't realize you were a conspiracy theorist! Come on now! Behind the scenes. What kind of nonsense is THAT?!?!!?

Eh?  . . . oh sorry, guess I was bored.