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Why do so many Iranians identify themselves as "Persian"?

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Teddy Roosevelt:
Iran is a country. Persian is an ethnicity.

big mat:
i dont know why but this puta is holding it down when it comes to persion/iranian porn:

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Dubbz:
Iran is Persia

Ali Tha Great:
thats what i've been saying dawg...I can't stand it when i ask an iranian person where they're from and they say"I'm persian"...which isn't answering the question...I said...where r u FROM...the answer should be a location...not an ethnicity muhfuckazzz...most IRANIANS say that they're persian because it sounds better and less threatening than iranian...like iran is a"TERRORIST" country or some shit...pfffwww...

King Tech Quadafi:
This is a very tricky situation

Iran refers to a country, and every citizen of Iran is called an Iranian

Iranians however refer to themselves as Persian which is the name of the ancient empire. But its actually a mistake, an attempt to monopolize the use of that term

If we use the Persian empire as a barometer of what is considered a Persian, then Azeris, Armenians (who actually speak an ancient Persian language), Kurds, Iranians, Tajiks and Pashtuns are considered Persians because these peoples lands made up the Persian empire. Plus the intermingling of Parthian, Scythian and Medes genes plus to some extent semetic on the western part and dravidian on the eastern part.

If we use the Indo Iranian linguistic group as the barometer for Persians, then we include Pakistanis and Balotch

Technically the most correct interpretation would be that all Persian speakers can be considered Persian. But Farsi is the official language in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Tajiks infact means eastern Iranians, usually Sunni Muslim.

But when an Afghan Farsi speaker (not Pashtun cuz we would never claim persian) claims to be Persian, he is made fun of for being a wannabe. But then an Azeri or Turkic descended Iranian can claim Persian? Makes no sense.

Many of the Persian empires notables, warriors and poets came from modern day Afghanistan like Balkhi, Rumi and Jalaludin Afghani.

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