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

[TraceOneInfinite]

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By the way ... fun bit of dubcc synchronicity guess who I ran into the fuccin breakroom at work?!?

King Techs full biological brother same mom and dad !!!  All the way in the Arab gulf he was just some random guy I'd been chopping it up with in the breakroom — till I was like — hey, you by any chance know another Afghani Canadian guy...

[HighEyeCue]

I had an ex who called herself Persian but would refer to the country as Iran

I should have asked her as to why but I didn't really care at the time

[Sccit]

I had an ex who called herself Persian but would refer to the country as Iran

I should have asked her as to why but I didn't really care at the time

i was close homies with ali when this thread was made and took his analysis on persian vs iranian as legit.. that's no longer the case (shoulda seen the writing on the wall based on shit like him randomly hitting me with a hoe ass backhanded diss outa the blue in one of his replies to tech in this very thread)

come to find out, he's actually down with the oppressive irgc so everything he was spittin in this thread was arab influenced nonsense.... rodzilla was right all along

the persian empire is bigger than just iran and it's an ethnicity via a bloodline. there's a deep history to persia (intertwined with the jewish faith as well)... the label iran is more associated with the islamic takeover of that nation. as many already know, iran was not originally a muslim nation, but rather simply one of the many countries in the middle east conquered by islamists.

persian is a legit ethnicity .. iranian is just a nationality.