[OCCASparky]

I was gonna say, it's not Arabic, it's not "Persian", it's Farsi.

And if you want to get a REAL idea of what life under the mullahs is like--talk to someone who lives there or Encino, etc.

[sionnsar]

I was gonna say, it's not Arabic, it's not "Persian", it's Farsi.
And if you want to get a REAL idea of what life under the mullahs is like--talk to someone who lives there or Encino, etc.

We have many Iranian-born friends, whether Muslim (one of which is due soon to receive an award from a local Jewish community), semi-practicing Muslim (over the past two decades), and Christian convert, who feed our image of Iran today. (Building on my Farsi-phone wife's personal knowledge of Iran a while back.)