I fail to see what the President of Iran is but a fundamentalist (Sunni) Muslim - ...
I was under the impression that most Iranians are
Shi'a, as are most of the Arabs in Iraq, especially in the South. The
Sunnis are the minority in Iraq but controlled everything under Saddam's regime, and therein lies just one of the reasons for the continued violence there.
... knowing that by fundamentalist I mean a follower of a creed who agrees with putative conservative fundamentals. And that is what he is -certainly I would avoid such terms of 'extremist' or other doltish adjectives.
Some of the former American hostages who say they recognize him from their 444-day "stay" in Iran probably have different terms for him, most of which are not appropriate for this forum. I, fortunately, was not one of his "guests," but I have a long and unforgiving memory for some things. One of my failings, I suppose. It's not always easy to turn the other cheek.
There's all kinds of fundamentalists. Back during the Reagan era, the story (joke) circulated that someone asked Reagan what he would do if radical fundamentalists took over the oil fields. He replied that he thought he was on good terms with
Jerry Falwell and
Pat Robertson.