Alexander The Great and how the Iranians see him

Still following the footsteps of Alexander, I took the chance and mentioned his name to my Iranian friends when I was in Tehran last week, regardless their background and religious beliefes, they all agreed on one thing: that he was an evil person and their main source of hatred is that he destroyed the Takhte Jamshid, or Persepolis, the ancient capital of the glorious Persian empire of the ancient times. They regard him as a symbol of evil and hatred, they deliver these to children and even in their history books and at schools, they see him as equally evil as Satan. According to them, Alexander was a strong leader who wanted to conquer their empire and destroy it out of pure jealousy and because he wanted to defeat them to claim himself the world leader. He did and he even destroyed their beautiful capital, burned many cities, killed many people including women and children, destroyed their temples and holly places. They hate him absolutely that just mentioning the name "Eskander" as they call him, their faces really turn very angry. The Iranians -unlike many nations in the world- are still in a very close contact with their history, they love their country and they are proud of its heritage, many of them still call their children ancient names of Persian heroes and names that are stemming from their ancient history. No wonder that they will hate Alexander in such a way. But there is always another face for the truth, Alexander did defeat the Persians and destroyed their capital and sacred places, but many historians see this as actually liberating Greece from the Persian occupation (at that time Persia was ruling the world even Egypt was part of the Persian Empire) and burning the Takhte Jamshid is nothing but an act of revenge for the Acropolis Temple of Athens that has been destroyed by the Persians! Well, I guess it's history, you can see it from different ways and you can actually hear people saying the same events in totally different scenarios, having a winner means there has been a loser, and the two stories would never be the same, at least from the emotional and human point of view. Again, Alexander, an angel or a devil, a hero or a villain, call him whatever you like, still he is one of the Greatest men in history.