Iranian's are Persians... very different than the arabs .
Posted on 05/02/2009 1:45:10 PM PDT by Cyrus the Great
Iranians can frequently be identified by the “the size of the sail”, but there are a mix of people in their makeup. It’s probably a “recessive” in every population.
Iranian's are Persians... very different than the arabs .
That poster assumes we don’t know the truth. Do you also we don’t know nothin’?
Perhaps, you do but many don’t. There’s nothing wrong with being informed. Thank you!
No problem. I am most sorry for the Arab Iranians. They really got the shaft.
Saddam Hussein was relying heavily on Iran’s 2% Arab populace on the border with Iraq in Khuzestan (70% or more of Iran’s oil is located there), however, the Iranian Arabs fought harder against Saddam than even the Persians. No amount of Arab sentiment worked because they see themselves as Iranians first.
There’s a billion of em...que rim shot....
You bet your Farsi.
That they are. I worked with a guy from Iran and I made the very poor choice of asking him if he was Iranian. The little man darn near took my head off. He turned red in the face and started yelling “I’m Persian damnit”.
yup... my best friend in college was Persian and was sent to America by his parents after the fall of the Shah.
I always figured the difference was that some Iranian women are really hot and Arab women....well not so much.
Americans are generally a “live and let live” bunch (always exceptions, so I'm not saying it's true of all Americans).The only ones who trouble us, and we therefore must learn more about, are the ones who want to destroy us. If the Copts are out to destroy us, that's news to me.
When it comes to most Arab countries, Persia and the Afgans/Paks, that's a distinction without a difference. When it comes to existential threats, we'll treat all comers equally (we're at war and in the end, we'll kill them, but only if we have to), which is where non-Americans seem to get this belief that we're ignorant.
So Iranians are definitely not Arabs.
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But they ARE Shiites, one of the nuttier parts of a religion that is plain nuts anyway.
Ok, Iranians aren’t Arabs, but they are Muslims, and Islam ruins every race it infects. So, now what?
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