A while ago I read about American scholar Richard Frye. He likes Iran so much, his will is to be buried in Esfahan. Watch CNN"s Iranian news presenter interviewing him
Richard Frye interview with IRIB in Persian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzT-s5brZMk
Richard Nelson Frye (born January 10, 1920) is an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University. His professional areas of interest are Iranian philology, and the history of Iran and Central Asia before 1000 CE.