% der Perser im Iran nach Provinz

Do north and south Persians look different ? I was surprised to see on the news many Persians who look like Europeans. Also shout out to @ gghamari she’s such brave woman

I’m pretty sure Azerbaijani Turks are missing in the second diagram. They make about 25–30 % of Iran’s population.

I swear that every time Trump attacks or threatens to attack a country or territory all these “informative” maps show up here. Why, people? Come on. Show some restraint.

The map of mineral deposits in Greenland wasn’t interesting during the Greenland crisis and it isn’t interesting now, not more than a map of mineral deposits in Congo or Australia in any case. Same with this map right here. If anything it just serves as war propaganda because it provides a talking point “oh did you know that in Iran bla bla bla”. Don’t. Just don’t.

Isn’t ayatollah azerbaijani?

inaccurate

In practice less than half of Iran is probably Shia Muslim

This would explain a bit why every single Iranian I’ve met in my life presented themselves as Persian instead of Iranian, I thought they said that because in their language Persian and Iranian was the same word.

Kurdish propaganda for you, without any resource or anything just eliminating Azeri Turks which is nearly 18%. Also there are Khrosani Turks and other Turkic groups which make another 6% approx. according to Iran Goverment itself. Kurds make 8%.

A misleading map as this counts only strictly ethnic Persians. However there are many other minorities that are Iranian. Some so close to the Persians that splitting them in anything but a dialect of the same in origin Iranian language makes no sense. They are also very pro-Iranian on national and ethnic basis. Other Iranian groups have varying sentiments, but for some areas the language and ethnicity does not matter so much, as the minority speaks Farsi as a second language quite well and is more interested in the religion (specifically the Shia) and are loyal due to that. This also excludes many other factors about culture, ethnicity, religion, customs, language, political and social history and inclinations etc.

Many westerners do not understand Iran and are used to selectively choosing some statistic they like and working wrongly in a direction of divide and conquer that would have little to no effect. Iranian people make-up ~75-80% of the population (With 5-8% of that being Kurds, but the Kurds are not a unified ethnic or political group by any means). The biggest non-Iranian minority of Iran are the Azeris with some ~15% and there are some Turkomen and random nomads, but the last two are very dispersed and few. The other big minority are the Arabs, but they stay with Iran due to the Shia religion.

Iran has vectors of influence through their leadership in the Shia world spreading strong influence over Shia Arabs in Iraq (60-70% of Iraq’s population), Shia and Alawites in Syria (~15% of the population), Shia Muslims in Lebanon (Hezbollah – 1/3 of Lebanon’s population), Shia Muslims in Saudi Arabia (~15-20% of the population, mainly where the Saudi oil and gas are), Shia Muslims in Kuwait (30-40% of the population), Shia Muslims in Qatar (~10%), Shia Muslims in the UAE (~10%), Oman (5%), and Yemen (35-40%). Through this religious leadership and patronage they influence Arab nations and states, even if they are led by Sunni’s. There are many Shias in Central Asia and South Asia as well. Not to mention the sympathy Iran gets from Sunni Muslims across the Arab and Muslim world for standing for Islam and against Israel, while the Saudi royal family and the other rulers of Arab countries are quite compromised for dealing with the USA and Israel.
The second vector of Iran is the nationalities and ethnicities. They are not using the Kurds against Syria and Iraq, but are sort of the enemy of your enemy is your friend type of situation with the Kurds of Turkey. On their eastern side is Pakistan, 1/2-1/3 of which is Iranian people and almost half of the territory up the Indus basically. Afghanistan is basically half (~40%) Farsi (Dari/Tadjik) and the others are Pashto, which are Iranian people. Tajikistan is literally just Persians writing in Cyrillic and they have some minority groups in other Central Asian countries. If Iran plays its cards right, it could be a regional power and empire from the Mediterranean to the river Indus and from the Caucasus to the Euphrates and the Arabian deserts.

I thought there was no jews left in Iran, there’s a story about the last one from few years ago