I hope you could have been able to watch the video.Thanks for the link! I like Moshiri and enjoy his frank talk. But I'm not his mental slave. If it hadn't been for extremist and unwise Sassanid policies, Iran would have never been weak enough to be invaded by a bunch of Arabian nomads and later on by Mongols. So the responsibility still falls on our shoulders. A rational and even tempered person/nation will always be stronger than one that isn't. Because they have more mental resources at their disposal, therefore more choices of action are available to them.
Our problem is an old one. It didn't start with the Mollahs. And it wouldn't end, if they leave tomorrow...
What I am trying to tell you is that the non-sense scholastic discussions(and scholasticism) are a poison in the mentality of many of Iranians. specially in the mentality of the people with no nomad background, like the central and southern regions. This is the mentality which ruined the Europe in the middle ages, and then got transfer to some islamic regions including persian regions and ruined them and is still dominant in your thoughts and is ruining the current day Iran. If you want to know why your people were and still are numbs about what happens in their country, you can trace its roots here. There is only one way to get out from this trap, and it is what Europeans did, which was putting aside those abstract non-sense thoughts, putting aside reading non-sense poems, and do a real job in your world.