host: next up is tom from tulsa, oklahoma on the line from republicans. caller: sir richard dalton, it is great to speak with you. i have maybe an interesting perspective about iran. i have heard that roughly 1,500 iranians are becoming christians daily, and maybe the protestors, some of those are christians, and also one could point -- the number one independent movie in the country right now is "the craw" about a guy named arthur blessette who went to every nation on the planet. he is in the guinness book of world records. he went to every island group, every territory and went to ant antartica carrying a 12-foot cross and people would show up. he went to belfast during the terrorist uprising in '69. it took him 40 years. he started in '68 or '69. host: we will leave it there. any spops to the first half of the question? guest: i haven't heard that figure before. the overwhelming majority of iranians are muslim faith and have been calling muslim chapters from the roofs at night to indicate they see themselves in the mainstream of iranian identity and ir

host: tulsa, oklahoma. caller: good morning. what i want to say is that i totally agree with that your guest. she is really making an important point. you see, the problem most of the kids outside in different countries, for example, i'm from the caribbean in jamaica. my 12-year-old kids have to do a national exam like last month in order to go into high school. and every student that takes that test, it's for the whole country. it doesn't separate which district you are from, which district you are from. it allows you to expose them from the tender age all different kinds of things. math, science, everything. nothing is off limits. and he passed significantly and he is going to a good school. and i know, because the problem is when a lot of people in the states go to jamaica and they assess the kids there, basically what they're saying for a 12-year-old kid, for a 12-year-old kid in the states compared to a 12-year-old kid out there, they are more advanced in what their exposure to what they learn in schools. guest: i think you

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