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Originally posted by papichulo
But do people IN Iran call themselves Persians or Iranians? If people wanted to call themselves Persians why not just change the name back to Persia? Or is it a non-Muslim v Muslim thing? or maybe a Shia vs Sunni thing (Iran is majority Shia)?
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people in iran are still ostricized for being persian, jewish, because of the fanatical regime in charge there. so i believe that when they are there, they keep a lower profile, but when they leave the country they make public their ethniticy