It happens everyday:
…because of the stupidity of the average man he follows not reason but faith and this naive faith requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent simplifications which is provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.
This is part of Noam Chomsky’s lecture were he quoted American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
Watch here: http://www.hulu.com/watch/118171/manufacturing-consent This applies to Iran with some revisions
of course!