There's no need to quibble. While I didn't explicitly say it, I am obviously in whole-hearted agreement with this viewpoint as I said in my post that he is very likely from an Iranian Jewish family. If Mr. Hazzan and I had the same background, I could have said he was of an American Jewish family (or Dutch Jewish, Polish Jewish, or German Jewish as I am all 4 of these ). In no way did I imply that being Iranian or Arabic (or if talking about me-American, Dutch, Polish, or German ) was itself a religion which would preclude him (or me) from being Jewish.
This is also true and a good point. As evidence of the cross pollination, the country of Persia was not originally Islamic. But in my admittedly limited experience, the people I've known with Iranian antecedents have described themselves as Iranians (or Persians) and not Arabs.
Gman