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My pride and honor is to warn that Tel-Aviv will get a crushing response to anyone willing to draw first blood on ordinary Persians, that their blood is not cheap one bit and that they are like nothing the West has ever faced in the past several decades. In addition I specifically mentioned in my previous comment that NONE other than the Iranian people have the right to take on their regime if they don’t like it, and that it is certainly not up to the West, Israel or any other state actor to decide who gets what in Iran.

Thus I wonder how you magically managed to see me grovelling to anyone mate, seriously. Considering the substance of my take expressed here and in many other pages that happen to be crystal clear on expansionist Zionism that I oppose wholeheartedly, Including in that particular exchange.

Besides, internal politics and leadership issues are separate from geopolitical ones, and in that regard, yes, I can say I fully support the Islamic Republic’s stance when it comes to safeguarding Iran’s state sovereignty and territorial integrity from the sea, ground and air from outside trespassers, whereas I find their fascist and murderous policies at home unbearable and unacceptable, I never made any secret of neither positions, and they are certainly not incompatible and can co-exist perfectly in one and the same critical mind, I assure you ;-)

Mmh it’s becoming interesting, did you just seriously try (and failed) to give me a lesson on my own identity to look more credible in a discussion ?

Well first off, I can call myself anything I want. The 1935 threshold was rather arbitrary and political, whereas both Iran and Persia could apply all the way back to the Sassanides era, the former was chosen as a reference at that year. And for the record, I’m not born in Iran, the Mullahs that you apparently love so much for everything they do and are inside the country prevented that, thank you very much. What if I do not recognize Reza Shah Pahlavi or a particular regime setting a definitive precedent on its people he never consulted about that in the first place ?

Now I’d feel that what YOU are trying to do by endorsing that designation is such an extremely strict way is de-facto also grovelling to the Mullahs who nowadays appear bent on erasing just that : whatever predated their Islamic Revolution, and make it look like that Iran is all about the Quran and Islamic values, and nothing else. I will forever combat that and never accept to get a whole piece of my ancestors’ identity go down the toilet like that.Such strict application is not even customary in contemporary literary, academic and administrative circles around the world, you should get out more, to Iran included…

Second, it remains a totally accepted fact etymologically to call one’s self a Persian even in 2019 if one so chooses, and you have absolutely no valid say on that, aside from trolling, which you’re free to do, of course, but don’t expect to take much credibility out of it. As an Iranian of a particular ethnic group within Iran that historically remained clear from foreign invasions, namely the initial Arabic onslaughts from one side and the Mongols from the other, all eras considered, I can even have material legitimacy to do just that. There is a reason why in official forms worldwide, you can either fill in as a Farsi-speaking Iranian or a Persian-speaking citizen.

We also celebrate Norouz which gets some of its millennia-old roots back to the Zoroastrian era which is not even recognized officially by the current regime, calendar or law. Still, it remains celebrated region-wide beyond Iran itself, and is recognized by the UN. And so what ? culture and history know no borders or labels, specially when there is colonization involved, à la Sykes & Pico, you should know better.

Pretty much the same way Latin is a dead tongue today and not officially spoken by any country, but people from Western Europe and South-America absolutely call themselves and are referred to as Latin people in history and geography classes, same goes with “Scandivanian” countries whereas that region doesn’t correspond to any relevant present-day kingdoms today. All in all, history + culture >> ever-changing political labels.

Bottom line is, what is irrelevant is actually precisely what I call myself : Persian, Iranian, Mazandarani, Lohri or Rasht for that matter. The importance is the underlying cultural pride and how it makes me relate to that country, what I hope for its present and future, whether I respect its people, land, and sovereignty in international matters, or the values I consider just and desirable for its society in the future, even if they go in total opposition to what is going on there at the moment at this level. Now I again reiterate : I invite you to browse my comments history and see how I fell about those Israelis and American that like to threaten my ancestry and parents’ land, you’ll see that my views of the region and the world aren’t quite as bent on Zionist enslavement as you seem to be willing to believe :-p

I don’t even have Iranian papers ROFL so your troll doesn’t even apply either way, I’m speaking cultural descent and values, you answer with even more red tape, it’s amazing xD

Anyhow I’m done with you, since I see you’re just being a tireless troll, just as I felt earlier. So thanks for confirming my thoughts and have a good day trolling latins and scandinavians about how they should call themselves :-)))))