Jesus was a Peroxide Blond...

I've generally gotten a laugh out of European depictions of blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus. It's so unreasonable as to be funny. I mean, honestly, who thinks a Semitic Jew from the Middle East would look like this:

Well, apparently the Iranians. Here is a screen capture of Peroxide Blond Jesus from the Iranian movie "The Messiah:"

A brief blurb:

A new movie in Iran depicts the life of Jesus from an Islamic perspective. "The Messiah," which some consider as Iran's answer to Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," won an award at Rome's Religion Today Film Festival, for generating interfaith dialogue. The movie will be adapted into a television series, shown on Iranian TV later this year.

Jesus was a peroxide blond. Even in Iran. Oh boy.