Today’s Iran is not Persia. The Arabs and the Turks have destroyed all. Islamic hordes have stripped clean any Persian character. Today’s “Persian” Nationalism is purely anti-Arab and anti-Jew Nationalism where they hate their semitic neighbors.
No it’s not. If anything, the mullahs reactionary direction away from the Pahlavi’s secular Pre-islamic nationalism reinvigorated it.
Religious observance plummeted since 1980, and the regime is dependent upon the rural areas for support.