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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsn't the official language of iran persian (farsi)?
Help me?
Stupid Newt.
Newt said arabic speaking groups could help in Iran.
spooky3
(34,231 posts)Frances
(8,519 posts)originalpckelly
(24,382 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,212 posts)spooky3
(34,231 posts)This website says: "The official language of Iran is Persian (the Persian term for which is Farsi). "
http://countrystudies.us/iran/37.htm
part man all 86
(367 posts)xchrom
(108,903 posts)But whatever newt wants is always nuts.
part man all 86
(367 posts)it is a what the British called them.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,212 posts)Good to know there is a spokesman.
Others would disagree, but go ahead and run with it.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Renew Deal
(81,774 posts)In fact they specifically called themselves "Persian"
Orangepeel
(13,932 posts)I work with a couple of Iranian-Americans. They both refer to themselves and others from Iran as Persian. They're unrelated to each other, so it's not something idiosyncratic to them.
On the Road
(20,783 posts)who will answer "Persian" when you ask them their nationality. I suspect this is partly due to the bad vibes a lot of Americans have with Iran, especially after the Hostage Crisis.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)Proto-Freepers were running around beating up Iranians, so some Iranians began telling people that they were Persian, counting on the fact that your average knuckledragger-who-beats-up-anyone-who's-different won't know that Persia is the old name of Iran.
part man all 86
(367 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)... referred to as Arabs.
Iranians or Persians seem to be the preferred terms of the folk I know
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)in Afghanistan and India. It is in a subgroup of the vast Indo-European language family (the one that English belongs to) called Indo-Iranian.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)Like I said in another thread, 3 dessicated brain cells between the whole group of them. Po'thangs.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,212 posts)Persian/Farsi is the predominate/official language.
Newt is an idiot.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)and Parsi = Persian. Thus Farsi & Persian are descendants of the same original word.
elleng
(129,800 posts)fujiyama
(15,185 posts)and he's supposed to be their "intellectual" candidate that too. Average political discourse among republicans is "Ay-raabs are scary and we don't want I-Ran-ee-ans to have nooo-kee-lar weapons". Hell, trying to pronounce things correctly gets derided (after all, Obama is pretentious in the way he pronounces Pakistan).
What a joke.
History expert to boot !!!!!
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)The Qur'an is always read in Arabic in MOST (maybe not all, not sure, but I can't think of any) Muslim countries.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Some Muslims believe that only reading the original language is correct to get every nuance.
Therefore, most well-read Iranians know Arabic quite well. It's like Catholics knowing how to speak Latin.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)And I'm NOT talking out of my rectum.
LOL!
* You are correct.
Bucky
(53,759 posts)They need it to study the Quran (although some do also buy translations to help them)
BrentWil
(2,384 posts)However, several are spoken. Farsi is spoken by the majority of the population. Azeri is spoken by the population in the northwest of the country. Kurdish is spoken in the northwest area that boarders Iraq. Balochi is spoken in the eastern part of the country that boarders Pakistan. They also have a small amount of Arabic speakers.
Iran has always been a multi-cultural country. I believe the current Supreme Leader's mother is Azeri.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)jmowreader
(50,419 posts)Send someone who speaks only Arabic to Iran, and they'll get shot as spies or something.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Greek, Armenian, and Sanskrit (India).
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)He's a fucking historian, for crissakes.
aquart
(69,014 posts)Which is a mistake I once made and was corrected with real anger. Persians are not Arabs. Which is why an American-Israeli war against Iran would be sweet joy to Saudi Arabia, Iraq...etc.
We are being pushed into doing Saudi dirty work. Like idiots.