i DONT know of any “persian” in L.A. who is NOT a Jew. Heck, the guys I know of in the L.A fashion district voted for Trump. The irony? Their workers are all illegals.
Persian. Seriously. A long dead empire who got their asses kicked by the Greeks multiple times.
The Persians I knew in L.A. were Maronite Christians.
No one’s talking about the “Persian Empire”. It is also a genuinely distinct ethnicity in terms of language, culture, and history ... still the largest in Iran. And until 1979 and Jimmy Carter the best friends we had in that region, barring only Israel. They’re of a different stock than the Arabs, speaking a language that has more relationship with German or Greek than it has with Arabic. People forget that or they never knew. A truly nationalist movement based on Persian identity will be anti-Mullah and anti-Islam at its heart. And one has been waiting dormant since 2009 when Obama cowardly, ignorantly, or as a closet supporter of militant Islam, refused to support a nascent revolt.
My neighborhood is full of Persian Jews. And yes, they have done well for themselves here. That is cool that the President is marking this Zoroastrian holiday.
Seriously?
How about speaking to the Persians who still today consider themselves Persians over the Ottoman realignment called Iran. I was there in the early to mid 70’s and there was a definite difference. The Green Revolution that Obama back stabbed was largely a Persian push back to the Theocracy that was foisted upon them by a whole litany of lies. They were promised with a Representative Republic if they joined the Mullahs to oust the Shah. Totally supported by Jimmie Carter.
I know a lot of Iranians refer to themselves as Persians.
Yes but the ethnicity Persian is not dead. The majority of Iranians are ethnic Persians.