That is actually true doe. My mother's grandmother is a sayyid.
As for the sassanid empire, It will never exist again. Islam has utterly destroyed every indigenous middle eastern culture, and even turkic ones.
Zoroastrianism won't ever make a comeback. However, religiousness in Iran is becoming extremely weak, and there will be an insurgency in the future which will ultimately result in a secular state which I can only hope will be as great as the sassanid, achaemenid, parthian etc empires.
As for the bleached porn accusations, you can believe whatever makes your twp harder