Answering Iran-related questions. Please try to keep questions

>>3126911
Why has Iran had so many different capitals? It seems like every dynasty/regime changes it. Other countries change capitals too of course but they only ever seem to bounce between two or three places, not regularly jump across the country.

>>3126911
What was going on during the 1600's and 1700's

>>3126911
Why did they turn to Islamic gommunism?

>>3126911
Can you shed some light on the relations of shia of yemen iraq and Iran, I understand there are theological differences, but who are the crucial players?

>>3126927

Capitals changed based on dynastic origins and distance between neighbouring countries, and given the relatively frequent changes in borders and dynasties in Iranian history, capitals frequently changed. Tehran was made the capital during the Qajar era. The king chose Tehran due to its geographic location, allowing him to maintain control over northern and southern Iran more easily.

>>3126911
why did they cucked themselves with arabic alphabet for their language? doesnt persian have its own script?

>>3126959
pahlavi script came from Phoenicians and it didnt matter after more letters were added to arabic to support the persian language.

>>3126931

During this era, Iran was ruled by the Safavids. In the early 16th century, Iran was ruled by Shah Abbas I, one of Iran's greatest modern king. His rule saw a cultural renaissance as well as a military resurgence, defeating the Uzbeks and Portugese, and pushing the Ottomans out of western Iran. The empire began to crumble in the early 17th century, where an Afghan revolt saw the capital, Isfahan, fall into the hands of the Hotaki briefly, until Nader Shah and his army of Safavid loyalists ousted them.

>>3126942

They say the Zaidis (Shias of Yemen) are more theologically similar to Sunnis than they are to Twelver Shias (those in Iran and Iraq). I'm not so sure as theology is not my area of expertise. The crucial players in Shia Islam today include Grand Ayatollahs Sistani, Khamenei, al-Modarresi, Javadi-Amoli, among others. The two main centres of learning in Shia Islam are Qom (in Iran) and Najaf (in Iraq). Funnily, many of the marjas in Iraq were/are Iranian, including Sistani.

>>3126959

Problem is that the Persians never developed an original alphabet. In ancient times they used Cuneiform writing, which seems to have been derived from the writing system of Sumerian, a non-Persian, non-Indo-European language. Persians hit the limelight when they captured Babylon, an act which kicked off their ancient empire. Later, Persians came to write their language in a scipt they called Pahlavi, which was derived from the alphabet of Aramaic with some borrowings from Greek. Aramaic was the dominant Semitic language in the region before Arabic rose to prominence and superceded it (Arabic and Aramaic are closely related).

Arabic itself was not generally a written language until after Islam came. The alphabet Muslims developed follows the form of preceding scripts in the region. It's hard to say that there is anything distinctly "Arabic" about the script, or anything distinctly "Persian" about the scripts that Persians used prior.

Persian has had a long and complex historical relationship with neighboring Semitic and non-Persian languages, going way beyond the brief period of Iran's history in which part of Iran was ruled by Arabs. Persian contained words with non-Persian roots, and Semitic languages (including Arabic) had words in their vocabulary with Persian roots.

>>3126911
Will secularism ever reemerge?

>>3127016

I believe religious rule will gradually wane and weaken, and ultimately something of a secular state will emerge, but not one that is western, if that makes sense. The timeframe of this process depends on so many factors. Will the US attack Iran? Will the government follow a series of policies so unpopular that it will be overthrown? Etc.

>>3126911
Bump before I go to sleep. Will check tomorrow if this is still up.

>>3127016
Hopefully not.

>>3127016
Highly unlikely. There are not enough of them and they are almost all centered in northern tehran, so they're not geographically widespread enough to be able to successfully revolt anywhere outside their containment zone in northern tehran.

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>>3127361

Have you read the Shahnameh? I'm just over halfway through it and it's been a fascinating read.

Is it true that Farsi was on the verge of extinction after the Muslim conquests and that Ferdowsi saved it with the Shahnameh?

>>3126911
When did the Arabs lose their grip over the region? what did the transition look like? What state rose to prominence?

>>3126968
Haha BTFO by the superior Afghan again

>>3127400

Ferdowsi alone did not saved Persian language. Ferdowsi was part of the much wider Shu'ubiyya movement, which in Iran sought the preservation of Persian identity and language. It was not only Ferdowsi who has contributed in Persian language protection, but he was one of the most predominant and important persons who devoted his life for this goal.

I think the threat of Arabization of Iran, especially during Ferdowsi's life, is exaggerated. During the entirety of the Arab era, much of Iran (perhaps not coincidentally, more or less the same regions that would later be Turkified) was not under Arab rule, but under the independent rule of pagan (Mithraic) Parthian kings. In this sense, Persian always remained a “dialect with an army”; and these millenia-old courts were never realistically in danger of shifting to Arabic.

I think Ferdowsi is an excellent example of the displacement of historical memory: he, or more correctly the tradition of which he was the greatest exponent, saved Iran not from Arabization but from Turkification, which was incomparably more real a threat than Arabization. Even looking at history confirms this; not one province of Iran which originally spoke Persian has been Arabized - but half of the greater Iranian world (Soghdia, Tokharia, Bactria, Adhurbayjan and even Aryana/Hazarajat to a degree) have been Turkified.

>>3127407

The Arabs lost a fair deal of power when the Ummayads were overthrown and replaced by the Abbasids, largely thanks to the Persian general Abu Muslim (Pour Vandad Hormoz in Persian). The Abbasids were basically Persianized Arabs. After their fall, many different Iranian dynasties rose to power, including the Saffarids, Samanids, and Buyids. Under the Buyids, the Caliph in Baghdad was basically their puppet.

>>3127438

Nader thoroughly subdued the Afghans and eradicated the Ghizlai Pashtuns.

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I'm all for monarchy, but Mossaedgh was literally the best thing to have happened to your country in a couple of centuries, and yet everyone seems to have the pleb-tier hots for the idiot Shah, especially after he became a tool of the globalist cabal.
What gives?

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>>3127498

Thanks for the detailed reply on Ferdowsi!

Another question - a lot of the art portraying scenes from the Shahnameh, and art from some point in Iran in general, has a very Chinese look to it. Was Iran's art heavily influenced by Chinese art? Was there a lot of influence aside from art from China?

I could easily see how this could happen considering how close Iran is to China and the Silk Road being right there along Iran, and how often China is mentioned in the Shahnameh. However, I didn't wanna just assume that's the case.

>>3126911
Here's my question: whats it like being such an attention whore that you create AMA threads on /his/?

>>3127498
Those previously Iranic regions were Turkified in part due to Mongol genocide of ethnic Iranians in Central Asia. Entire cities were wiped out and killed to the last child. Millions of people were killed and the population never recovered.

>>3127523
socialism is bad hurr durr

>>3127656
Mossadegh nationalised the oil industry, what's your point?

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>>3127596
I fucking love classical Iranian art. I'm going to bed now but Il be back tomorrow and post some really great Iranian music. People ITT might like it.

>>3127665
Mossadegh was an anti-imperialist communist, thats why he had to go according to the (((CIA))).

What is the general populances view on the west as a whole?

>>3127602
Shut up, go make frank threads if you have nothing of value to add.

>>3127673
I'm well aware of that, thank you, but that;'s not what this thread is about, it's about what the proverbial man in the street thinks, according to Persian OP.

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>>3127670

I'll get u started my dude

music from the qajar era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShhoJv6vt1A

classic pop stuffs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqtmTibk5TE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysy2DF97DFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF2sGMjEVHo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZapSijxie_o

a whole dang playlist of Iranian foik music: https://youtu.be/DzrvcjL236k?list=PLP-KVc1Rk3BhDo5x0hfflxHZcdi3Q7Fh0

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>>3127704
>no shahram nazeri
you tried

>>3127709

Never heard the guy before, will look em up

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>>3126911
Stop stealing land belonging to the Kurds.

Do you hate Greeks, what do you think of them?

>>3127679
>implying OP is actually Iranian
4chan is banned in Iran so not likely

>>3127762
Kurds are Iranians.

>>3127762
Kurds are iranian, like the welsh are british

>>3127767
greeks are subhumans desu

>>3126911
How come a country that entirely based on mountains, with its borders being where the mountains end, has historically been associated with horses and cavalry units in warfare?

Is the southern region, where the local economy is entirely drugs driven, autonomous from the rest of the country? Are they trying to succeed from the country?

Are people feeling nostalgia towards the monarchy? Is there a secular movement to reform the state away from Sharia?

Does your army really think that a very large number of very small gunboats can defeat a carrier strike group and adequately defend your coast?

>>3127975
>>3127971
I don't think they'd agree. In fact I think they'd shoot you for saying that.

>>3127836
>iranians don't exist outside of iran

>>3126911
At what point did the Medes and Persians become part of the same ethnicity (Persian/Iranian)? Is this inaccurate to suggest? If so, are people referred to on a regional basis, or are they all considered Iranians? Aren't Baluchis a separate, yet closely related ethnicity to the Persians?

>>3128025
>How come a country that entirely based on mountains, with its borders being where the mountains end, has historically been associated with horses and cavalry units in warfare?
Not OP

Horses of the persian region were not only plentiful but some of the largest and hardiest horses in the world, and apart from a few places the valleys and mountains are actually easier to traverse by horseback, if course not the highest part.

Also due to the entire arab, persian and steppe region the horses had a natural affinity for humans as they were often kept in tents due to the heat.

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>>3128028
That's cause being called "Iranian" automatically makes people assume you are a cucked (F)ersian.

Kurds are still proud of their Iranian heirtage but don't wanna associate with the word cause of those disgusting Arab mongrels.

Why do we use the term Iran rather than Persia? I understand that iranians might have their own endonym, but it's not like we call Finland "Suomi" or Japan "Nihon", so why would it be different in this case?

>>3128191
Persia has territorial claims tied to it, Iran doesn't.
Don't want to make their theoretical wars of conquest seem justified.

>>3128028
Kurd here (Kermanshahi). We're Iranian. Depends on politics really nowadays, kind of like >>3128099 said.

But nothing is more cringy than the Zoroastrianism crap in his photo. That goes for all neopaganism

>>3128099
Plus aren't these Syrian kurds? Naturally they don't think they're Iranian, considering

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>>3127741
Not him but Nazeri is one of the current Masters of Iranian classical music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsK4QaeJxpw

>>3127762
Kurds are Iranian

>>3128062
Medes are the ancestors of Kurds

you ask me
who are you and
with such a shaky
existence how can you
fall in love

how do I know
who am I or where I am
how could a simple wave
locate itself
in an ocean

you ask me
what am I seeking
above and beyond
the pure light
that I once was

and why am I
imprisoned in this cage
named body and
yet I claim to be
a free bird.

how do I know
how I lost my way
I know for sure
I was all straight
before I was
seduced by love.

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>>3129136

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>>3129133
Holy fuck thats good. Got any more?

>>3129171
I'm glad you like Nazeri. He is matched only by Shajarian, but I'm inclined towards Nazeri for the mystical nature of his work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWeXowGDgjQ

>>3129197
>>3129171
More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLa3akUwWOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXV4brcEaE

>>3127836
If you knew anything about how Iran works you would know that literally everyone browses the internet with a proxy.

>>3128191
Before the islamic republic Persia, rather than Iran, had bad connotations of orientalistic origin. Pahlavis asked other nations to change the name trying to appear more modern.

>>3129237
>>3128191
Persia is derived from the Greek word for Iran. Iran has always been called Iran by her people, the word Persia is completely foreign.

>>3126911
Why do Persians wewuz the pre-Indo-European civilizations of Iran?

>>3129238
Pay attention to anon's question and his examples, it goes beyond that. He asks why foreigners don't use the foreign term anymore.

>>3126911
What can you tell me about taarof? I'm not alien to the practice and I have experienced it first hand, but I can't grasp how it works. Iranians themselves don't seem very useful to explain it since it's natural to them, even for the youngs who claim to not follow it. Are there books or articles on the subject of taarof?

>>3129333
All iranians follow it, its innate learned behavior. And its not exactly unique. Every culture has their code of honor governing interpersonal interactions they claim is unique and zomg so strange!!1! but thats bullshit, theyre all very similar.

>>3129333
>>3129339
Basically taarof boils down to putting others before yourself, a sign of ultimate humility towards others. You want to show that you are kind and giving and not happy to simply take from others.

>>3127673
>falling for the Anglo lies

>British prime minister Winston Churchill suggested to the incoming Eisenhower administration that Mossadegh, despite his open disgust with socialism, was, or would become, dependent on the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party,[46] resulting in Iran "increasingly turning towards communism" and towards the Soviet sphere at a time of high Cold War fears.[47][48][49][50]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh#Plot_to_depose_Mosaddegh

>>3129378
I'm not falling for any lies. I have heard firsthand from people who were there at the time (one of them a disciple of Mossadegh). I have read primary sources. Fuck off.

>>3129311
>He asks why foreigners don't use the foreign term anymore.

Basically this >>3128215
Not calling it Persia denies territorial claims.

how do i get sum succ from an aryan girl

>>3129662
big semite wallet

>>3129339
>>3129346
It was pretty unique to me, to be honest. It was the first country where they gave me for free taxi drives, meals and even expensive clocks. I mean, you're supposed to reject the presents (and so I did) but it's still weird.

>>3129387
Bullshit.

>>3129216
And if you knew anything about Iran you would know everyone born post 1979 doesn't know anything but Islamic history
>literally everyone
Kek no

>>3129855
It's not actually free, not in the slightest

>>3129963
Not bullshit you faggot. I know an old man who was imprisoned for this shit and he told me all about it.

>>3126911
>hate arabs
>believe fanatically in ther religion
why are you such cucks?

>>3126911
how do i learn farsi

>>3130313
Go to farsi class. Basic farsi is pretty easy as long as you practice to gain fluidity. The alphabet will be the hardest part.

>>3130060
Just like anti-semitic Christians tho.

>>3130313
Take a class. Practice speaking with native speakers. Watch Iranian movies and television.

>>3130416
>>3130432
but i dont want spend money

What do you think about Azeris?
t. Born in Turkey but born to Azeri parents (we have Azeris here)

>>3130477
Aren't Azeris just Shia Turks?

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>>3130486
Yes.
We always called ourselves Turk (pic related, USSR also referred us as Turks)
Then Stalin came and said "lol you're Azeri" and Persians, Stalinists memeforced it.

You always hear about the Kurds everywhere else and how they hate living in those countries, but I haven't heard anything about them in Iran.

Are they actively separatist or terroristic, or is it that Iran has been decently stable they don't really do anything

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>>3130477
>>3130486
depends cause their history is a clusterfuck

What people don't know is that there is a difference between Iranian Azeri's and Azerbaijani Azeri's
For starters the region which the name "Azerbaijan" evolved from only enclosed Northwestern Iran, which used to be a Median Kingdom called Atropatene that mostly served as a vassal to other empires but had relative independence. Atropatene has the same meaning as Azerbaijan in old Medes/Persian meaning "Protector of Fire" but was corrupted to its current name with Arabs/Turks not having the same letters/syllables.
The region of the Republic of Azerbaijan used to be called Shirvan/Arran and got its name of "Azerbaijan" from the Müsavat party in 1918.

Sure, they both speak the same language today and share similar culture but that has to do with the turkification of the region especially under the Safavid era.
But they both have seperate origins whereas Republic Azeri's are pure Caucasus while Iranian Azeri's are a mix of Cacasus/Iranian people. They even used to have their own Iranian language called Azari/Adari (or old Azeri) but it changed gradually with the influx of Turkic migrants to the region and Talysh/Tati is whats left of it.

But of course with the pan-turanism meme the Soviets pushed in the region, no Azeri could give two shits about what I just wrote.

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>>3130527
you're joking right?

2 IRGC soldiers were killed like last week in the Kurdish district of Urmia
and after the bombing in the capital the Kurdistan province was hit the hardest for "arrests" of suspected extremists involved in the attack

>>3130582
so are they the most separatist group in Iran or is that someone else?

who are the most loyal ethnicities?

>>3130557
>But they both have seperate origins whereas Republic Azeri's are pure Caucasus while Iranian Azeri's are a mix of Cacasus/Iranian people
*sigh*
that's wrong.

>>3130590
Baluchs are probably worse if not equal.
>who are the most loyal ethnicities?
Gilakis and Mazandaranis, which is ironic with their history.
Azeri's get a honorable mention but they are suffering from pan-turkic pressure while having disputes about not being allowed to teach their language in school or the draught of Lake Urmia not being given attention by the government.

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>>3130557
i dont think modern day azeri people are pure caucasic people because the caucasian people mostly lived in shaki and they were assimilated into armenians who continued to occupy the region until 1990s. most azeris today are turkic with some tatic admixture after assimilating them. tats made up 11% of the eastern azeri population in he early 20th century.

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>>3130605
Please elaborate then.

>>3130477
>>3130486
Azeris are a Turkified Iranian people. That is to say, they are ethnically Iranian but speak a Turkic (not Turkish) language.

>>3130622
I didn't say modern but the original people of that region.
There is no denying that the constant migration of Oghuz turkic tribes for centuries left its mark on the people of the entire region.

Why'd you decide to learn the history of Iran? Seems like a cool pick but it's an area I imagine most wouldn't think of first when they think of areas they want to learn the history of

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>>3130627
Both Azeris and Turks descend from Turkmens. Azeris mixed with Iranians/Caucasians whereas Turks mixed with Anatolian Greeks and Armenians.
pic related is the gedmatch genetic calculator result of an Azerbaijani for example.
>>3130633
Again
W-R-O-N-G

>>3126911
What do you guys think of the Alevi? Do you even know we exist?

>>3130637
Iranian history is severely underrated. They were doing the whole feudal system complete with chivalry and knightly orders a millennia before Europe

I read All the Shah's Men and Empire of the Mind, so now I have an okay overview of Persia. Where should I go from here?

>>3130652
Shahnameh

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>>3130639
I see your point but saying that "Both Azeris and Turks descend from Turkmens" is factually wrong on the Azeri part.
Because Azerbaijan predates the Oghuz migration because of Arabs giving the region that name after the Islamic conquest and describing them in the Kitab al-boldan by Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani speaking a language called Adari/Azari.

So you could say it was Oghuz Turks that mixed with Azeri's (in the Iranian region). But as for the Caucasus, I don't even want the headache.

>>3130721
I know, but what i meant by "Azeri" is different and you know that
Fucking Stalin man.

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>>3130758
Be happy you didn't get the jew treatment.

>>3130775
They should rename that oblast to something different. No jews live in that oblast, not anymore lol.

>>3127523

Mossadegh is very popular among Iranians, more than the Shah.

>>3128025

Anon answered the horse question.

>Is the southern region, where the local economy is entirely drugs driven, autonomous from the rest of the country? Are they trying to succeed from the country?

W0t? The southern economy is all oil, fishing, and agriculture. No real secession movements in the south.

>Are people feeling nostalgia towards the monarchy? Is there a secular movement to reform the state away from Sharia?

Some, but they're few and far between. There's not a movement in Iran itself.

>Does your army really think that a very large number of very small gunboats can defeat a carrier strike group and adequately defend your coast?

Iran is relying more on A2/AD weapons and strategies for that purpose as opposed to gunboats.

>>3128062

>>3128191

Persia is originally a Greek term describing the region of Pars in Iran. This term was adopted by the west, while Iranians have been calling their land "Iran" (or some sort of variation) for at least 2000 years. In 1935, Reza Shah formally asked the international community to recognise Persia as Iran.

>>3128062

Firstly, Greek sources make no real distinction between Medes and Persians. From Wiki, for a Greek to become "too closely associated with Iranian culture" was "to become Medianized, not Persianized". It's unclear when exactly the Medes disappeared from history and splintered into other northwestern Iranian speaking peoples, but I don't think we have any records of them from the Sassanian era onwards.

They are all considered Iranians, but it's not uncommon for an Iranian to say that they are from X or Y city. For example, an Iranian from Tehran will call himself a Tehrani, a person from Kermanshah, Kermanshahi, etc. Rarely do people say "I am Turk" or "I am Gilaki", etc.

Baluchis are indeed a separate Iranian ethnic group related to Persians. Their language, however, is surprisingly northwestern Iranian.

>>3127836
And in China, yet we have a lot of chinchong fags here.

>>3130652

Is there a specific era of Iranian history that interests you?

>>3130642

Well, many of the Turkmens who created the Safavid order belonged to the Alevi-Sufi tradition, which was gradually rejected by the Safavid Shahs in favour of Twelver Shiaism in the hopes of creating a unified Iranian state. In fact, Shah Ismail's religious views espoused in his poetry found its way into the Buyruks, so Alevis have close ties to Iran. A fatwa by Musa al-Sadr (not Iranian, but close enough really) declared Alevis as Shias. So to answer your question, yes, we know of the Alevis.

>>3130060

>their religion

I'll put this simply -- Islam would be nothing without the contributions made by the Iranians. It's as much an Iranian religion as it is Arab.

>>3130477

Iranian Azeris are great. Azerbaijanis are vitriolically anti-Iranian for some reason.

>>3130527

There are several groups fighting for autonomy/separatism for Iranian Kurdistan. These include PJAK (offshoot of PKK), Komala, and PDKI. Iran has fought these groups for decades. Their numbers range in the thousands.

Iran ousted PJAK in 2011. Their base is in the Qomalah mountains in Iraq. Iran fought against KDPI throughout the 80s and 90s, ultimately defeating them and wiping out their leadership, although tensions have risen lately.

I don't think they pose any real threat to Iran's territorial integrity. Tensions have always been limited to the border regions right on the periphery of the Iran-Iraq border.

>>3130637

I am Iranian and I got into Iranian history when I was eight years old. I was reading a book on ancient Egypt. In it, it spoke about the Achaemenids. I had never heard of them before, but it said that they were Iranians. I asked my dad about them and he taught me what he knew about ancient Iranian history. As I grew, I delved into the topic more thoroughly. I don't have a degree in it or anything, it's just an interest of mine.

>>3131174

Sorry, Qandil mountains**

who was wrong in the iranian revolution?
also, how do i get qt persian gf?

>>3131617
Everyone but the Muslims

They were wrong for trusting the Muslims

>>3131092
Actually it's not. Chingchongs just aren't interested in 4chan, and captcha is blocked

>>3130493
Retard. You are so cucked out of your actual history and culture you legitimately think Russian propaganda fabrication even almost a century later is still valid. Absolutely pathetic.

>>3131650
I know for fact its blocked in Guangdong province

Did the Turkic dynasties that ruled Iran consider themselves to be 'Persians'?

>>3126911
>Answering Iran-related questions.

>>3132581
Is this right?

>>3132624
Iran comes from Eran[shahr] ie [Realm of] Aryans. Darius calls himself in his inscriptions "persian, son of a persian, aryan, son of an aryan". So yeah, pretty much.

Not OP tho

>>3132980
Doesn't persian just mean born in Persa, which was the town Darius was born in?

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>>3127602
I enjoyed OP's answers. Go wank yourself to sleep.

>>3127836
4chan isn't banned in China but Chinese shit posters needs to buy a 4Chan pass before they could post.

>>3128222
>Zorostrian
>Pagan

I thought Muslims considered Zorostrians among the People of the Book?

>>3126911
What would you reccomend reading/watching in order to get a good understanding of Zoroastrianism?

>>3131174
Can you tell us about Zoroastrianism?

>>3132982
Persian refers to being from (p)fars province

>>3132982
Yes, and aryan means iranian (in this context).

>>3133228
I think it's more like hinduism. It's pagan, not people of the book, but considered worthy of paying jizya tax instead of being genocided due to convenience in some areas.

>>3126911
Why does Iran not concede to the jews?
They know that they have no chance and are doomed once the final zionist war comes

Also why don't the people migrate out of there already? Don't they see what's going to happen in 10 years?

>>3126911
Do Azerbaijanis in Iran have any bonds with Azerbaijanis from Azerbaijan?
It seems that they're more Persian than Azeri/Turkish

>>3126911
I've heard of some minority (ethnic?) group called the Baluchi who live in Southeastern Iran. Who the hell are they?


Also, my grandfather was a Mossad agent and had a mission in Tehran in the early-mid 80s, which apparently involved pretending to be a rich dilettante, sitting around, drinking coffee, and probing the locals about how they felt about the war with Iraq. Do people still hold grudges over that sort of thing?

>>3133534
>he trusts intelligence agents
Yeah, your grandpa totally didn't lie about his mission

>>3133534
Not OP but I was there and learned a couple of things and a bit of farsi.

Balochis are one of the nomadic minorities, "like" kurds or luris, but they live in the border with pakistan (there's a pakistani balochistan too). They're a tribal iranic sunni people. Their land is very arid and inhospitable so they've been traditionally autonomous and even de facto independent. They don't get along well with states, in Iran they're sunni rebels while in Pakistan, a hardcore sunni nation, they're socialist rebels. I guess that they just want to be left alone, like this peoples often do, and will profit from every casus belli they can. I have to mention that I didn't meet a single balochi and maybe the average one is just a normal guy.

As for Israel, there's indeed hostility against it (probably only amongst the poor common people). More than towards the USA. As an european I had zero problems with iranians and, in fact, they loved the fact that me and my couple were visiting the country. But for example a shopkeeper randomly asked me why our country supports Israel, very angry, as if I'm in charge of foreign policy or something. It's worth mentioning that his partner looked pretty embarrased by this rude behaviour though. If you talk about politics with the common folk (which you should try to avoid) Israel will probably be mentioned and you're expected to nod if they talk shit about it. They feel threatened by the israelites.

>>3133523
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>>3130557
They didn't call themselves Azerbaijan until recently in the Republic. And the ones pushing for "unity" today are pan-turanist memsters looking to spread Turkish/Republic influences for their own geopolitical agendas like the Soviets did back then.

>>3133592
It's true about Israel though

>>3126911
What is/was the view of the average Iranian on Armenia?

>>3133671
Considering they support Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict eventhough they have a huge Azeri population themselves, I'd say they like them.
Also, Iran has alot of old Armenian churches still used today, especially in the Azerbaijan region.

>>3133671
The high class youngs value having armenian friends because as christians they're allowed to make wine.

Do you think the U.S. will invade with the Saudis? I l'm in the U.S., and Iran here is treated as the evil bad guy pulling all the strings in the middle east. Pundits here call Iran a funder of terrorism. Whenever an attack on U.S. troops by sunnis happens in Saudi Arabia, the U.S. blames shia and Iran. Ben Shapiro thinks that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but the reason none were ever found is because they were barried in Iran.
This is all crazy bullshit, especially coming from the U.S. and the Saudis who back tons of right wing extremists and terror groups.
In my country, the government and both parties are gnawing at the chance to invade Iran. But how is the possibility treated in Iran and the public?

How is the local oil economy doing while the Saudis are undercutting oil prices?

Is Communism still alive in Iran or did it die out?

>>3134177
The Saudi's aren't trying to undercut oil prices anymore. They're trying to restrict production to boost prices. They were undercutting prices to hurt US Shale Oil which was just getting off the ground financially, but what's fucking the Saudi's right now was initially Iran being able to sell their oil again (which flooded the market and helped keep prices low) and Iran's refusal to halt production, and more recently Nigeria and Libya refusing to halt production of oil on their ends because they like making money.