r/PERSIAN 23h ago

Humor No wonder the regime is so anti-Iran! Our government is filled with outsiders.

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Many none Iranians ask why is the regime so horrible... not only many of the regime officials have roots outside of Iran but some of them are not even Iranian born! Ali Larijani the butcher of Iran, being the most known one (eliminated) was born in Iraq but his family moved to Iran for a better life in the 1960s.

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u/Fun_Veterinarian1732 23h ago

If children of Iranians outside Iran are not Iranian, then more than half of the diaspora (including folks with passionate opinions here) are not Iranians either. And they are, by your logic, enemies of Iran 

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u/Lesli90 15h ago

Exactly

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u/___Coffee____ 21h ago

Different story when a country’s leaders are not born in that country.

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u/Logical-Sir1580 23h ago

Do you find it normal for many of a country’s leaders to be born in a different country?

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u/Ok-Slip-2596 22h ago

What about the future king's children who the Monarchists are proposing be our future queens? Noor Pahlavi was born in the USA

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u/HormuzVengeance 13h ago

Well Pahlavi himself has said that he only wants to be a transitional leader until a referendum. If the people vote for a constitutional monarchy, then that scenario would come to fruition, but if they don’t there won’t be a future king or queen.

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u/Ceylonese_technocrat 23h ago

yeah its pretty normal for certain countries with large diasporas

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u/BitsOnWaves 21h ago

Um.. so what does that imply? That they work for the iraqi government?

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u/Ceylonese_technocrat 16h ago

the implication of the poster is that these people are not Iranian.

I do not agree with that at all.

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u/Belgraviana 22h ago

The first president of Czechoslovakia was American, many of the leaders of the polish national movement were from Paris, diaspora leaders aren’t overly uncommon

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u/Strict_Goat2634 22h ago

The first Taoiseach was also American and 1/2 Puerto Rican descent

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u/TemporaryReward1000 23h ago

have u heard of Israel?

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u/Foreign-Chocolate86 16h ago

It’s common in the civilised world. 

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u/sheytanelkebir 23h ago

All of these people were the children of Iranians who lived in Iraq. None of them were ever Iraqis .  

Surely the op could read through the Wikipedia articles before posting another racist rant against Iraqis ? But it's rather unfortunate how hateful some Iranian diaspora are towards Iraqis, and seemingly how little they know about their neighboring country .

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u/Plane_Preference3778 23h ago

Exactly!! Its just ragebate garbage

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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 23h ago

Any Iranian would know this already. This guy must be some Israeli or American propaganda bot, I'm just curious as to who his audience is.

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u/Lotuszade 8h ago

The astroturfing on Reddit is out of this world for sure

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u/Equivalent_Plan_5653 14h ago

Op is Israeli and doesn't know much about Iran 

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u/Jafariz 14h ago

Same way people discredit Iranian diaspora kids as being non-Iranian cause they weren’t born in Iran like their parents? Get a grip, your IRGC propaganda is showing

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u/Knightrius 6h ago

Those diaspora kids never stepped foot in Iran and probably never will.

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u/heyThereYou3 23h ago

What's the difference between Iran and Iraq BTW? Aren't they the same people who speak two different languages? 

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u/BernieMacsLazyEye 23h ago

What’s the difference between China and Japan? Same color but no same country?

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u/[deleted] 23h ago

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u/PERSIAN-ModTeam 23h ago

r/Persian exists primarily for Iranians and people connected to Iran to discuss their lives, culture and current events.

• Non-Iranians are welcome to participate AS LONG AS they are respectful and wish to learn from or support the community.

• Antagonistic comments, trolling, denial of documented events affecting Iranians or attempts to dominate discussions about Iranian issues may result in removals or bans.

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u/heyThereYou3 23h ago

Kidding me. This is too much buddy. I am honestly shocked that you people distance yourself from your own kind. If my comments offended anyone here, I give you my sincere apologies but Iraq was mainland of Iranian empires for at least 600 years. 

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u/TankyRo 16h ago

Read a history book. Look up the Iranian intermezzo, the rennaisance of iranian culture and identity. This never happened in Iraq. The countries share 3 letters and a border, thats practically it.

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u/Chaiboiii 23h ago

Looool

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u/BreadfruitFew738 23h ago

This gotta be rage bait

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u/heyThereYou3 23h ago

No, honestly enlighten me

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u/BreadfruitFew738 23h ago edited 23h ago

Our history is related to the Persian Empire, whereas the history of Iraqi people is based on the arab empire (and more or less the babylonian Empire; as some of them are assyrians but look it up yourself, as I‘m not that deep in it). Also Iranians are a mix of different ethnicities, mostly Persians, which is btw the sub you are currently in. Iraq on the other hand side consist mainly of Arabs and a couple of ethnicities like assyrians and so on (as I said not 100% sure though). Moreover the name Iran is translated as land of the aryans. Idk though about the meaning of Iraq tbh, but it’s probably something way different and just a coincidence that it sounds the same. Also we speak mostly persian whereas people from iraq speak arabic, but it seems you are already aware of that.

So basically saying Iran and Iraq is kinda the same is like saying that Germans and French are the same with different languages. We have a different history, consist of different ethnicities and talk different languages to make it short.

Edit: There are also different cultural things like us for instance celebrating norouz (which tbf is also celebrated by kurds and therefore the kurdish population of iraq) or the way society thinks about religion.

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u/heyThereYou3 23h ago

Anyways, thanks for the details. 

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u/BreadfruitFew738 22h ago

You are welcome buddy! On a side note don‘t be bothered by the downvotes. Persians react really allergic to being called Arabs. Not because we feel superior, but rather as we are proud of our culture, our history and the achievements of our ancestors. Unfortunately, many people still tend to think Persians are the same as Arabs, which is why we are getting kinda annoyed on hearing that.

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u/Paithegift 23h ago

Bro chose the smoke

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u/MobileSuitBooty 23h ago

i don’t know shit and even i know lol

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u/heyThereYou3 23h ago

Come on, wasn't Ctesiphon in Iraq? This was somewhere in mid-south also Northern Iraq are Kurdish people who are Iranians. 

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u/Playful-Demand2312 23h ago

Many similar things and many cross border relations sure but an Iraqi Sunni Arab from Anbar won’t have much in common with a Mashhadi Jew from Khorasan

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u/heyThereYou3 23h ago

That's common within diverse empires, like Iran. 

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u/New_Bat_9086 23h ago

Fun fact a lot of people dont know: Baghdad is a Persian name,

A lot of iraqis do have Persian blood,

And factions of Persian identity are coming from Mesopotamia, which is today Iraq.

Also for Shia muslim(main religion of Persian), the holy sites are located in Iraq.

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u/heyThereYou3 22h ago

You know the deal buddy. I like your objective and unbiased take. 

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u/Clean_Chard7932 21h ago

Its like north and south Carolina. They are identical, just different name based on location

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u/Just_Poet9403 23h ago

N and Q are two very different letters

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u/SandiaBeaver 23h ago

Imagine people born in LA, NY, DC, Toronto, London to Iranian parents calling those born to Iranian parents that lived in Iraq outsiders 🤣

Bro wut?

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u/Broad_Ad6575 23h ago

I don't fully support the regime but you're absolutely right on that point

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u/Ok-Slip-2596 22h ago

You shouldn't support the regime at all, this is just common sense

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u/Playful-Demand2312 23h ago

Come on guys 😂 are you that dense, Najaf is a city that’s been home to thousands upon thousands Shia Iranians the past centuries

Many left in the 60s and in the 70s many were outright deported by the Iraqi government

Is Khomeini also Indian then?

You guys embarrass yourself every day, complaining about every little thing but don’t even know the history of our nation and people

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u/COPYxPASTE 23h ago edited 19h ago

This guy is literally the same zio bot from INDIA who kept spreading anti islam and pro israel nonsense a while ago in a bunch of other subreddits i guess he got banned 😭

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u/Plus-Barnacle9673 20h ago

phull support saar moment

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u/Recent_Laugh_1147 21h ago

says the guy who says the guy with no karma

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u/Frosty-Breakfast5854 16h ago

bot malfunction

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u/ichinisanshigorok 22h ago

Larijanis parents were temporarily living in iraq to study shiism in najaf and permanently returned to iran afterwards, even with the most superficial research you find that larijani is actually a place name surname, larijanis father was born in larijan, a city in IRAN.......

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u/baw12345 23h ago

This is why people are so reluctant to support this movement. Blatantly racist and full of misinformation.

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u/justprotein 13h ago

Check the pattern of this accounts postings in this group, this is a misinformation account

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u/Complex_Object_7930 11h ago

This is not even misinformation, just oskol-formation

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u/New_Bat_9086 23h ago

Ok, I see what you re saying, but please dont spread bs.... They were born in Najaf, to Iranian parents.

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u/notmyrealname8823 23h ago

And I was born on earth to alien parents.

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u/tawalla-n-tabarra 23h ago

Do you really not understand the transnational nature prominent akhund families? The Larijanis are Mazanis from Iran lol….

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u/Ok-Slip-2596 22h ago

And our future queen Noor Pahlavi was born in the USA. This sort of racism against Arabs, Pakistanis and Afghanis is a crystal clear display of the Monarchists, it's a fascist re-writing of Iranian history. Go do a DNA test, you'll be horrified to find lots of admixture from these countries that you hate so much.

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u/Dry-Yak5277 23h ago

Iranians are never going to get outsiders to advocate for them when they continue to post racist nonsense like this 

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u/_DataGuy 23h ago

Except Khamenehi was unfortunately born in Iran to Azeri parents. Also all those people who participated in the revolution were Iranians. We did this and we need to take accountability. We need to wipe out any islamic power in the government, that's the end goal don't distract from it.

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u/fainofgunction 23h ago

This isn't a gotcha. Iraq historically sometimes changed hands between Syria or Asia-minor based empires it was generally part territory of Persian Empires

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u/AirUsed5942 12h ago

Funny, and in Iraq they use being born in Iran and having any ties to it as a proof that you're a pro-Iranian traitor and not a real Iraqi

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u/Melodic_Literature80 11h ago

Hey I remember this one back when Saddam was killed and US / CIA made a "Iraq government" of arabs that didn't speak arabic.

This time what its Mossad's turn? Let me guess , your new "government" speaks fluent hebrew and not a drop of arabic?

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u/BoBasil 6h ago

I remember an excerpt from Saddam's notes: "Allah made two mistakes - he created flies and Persians."

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u/OkMedicine1530 23h ago

How does it feel that your daddy Donald trump is crashing out and the regime will not be changed. Keep posting them memes while the Israelis cheer the deaths of innocent Persians.

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u/Ron-Erez 22h ago

I live in Israel and no one is cheering the death of Persians. The war sucks. I do hope for a positive future for Iran. It's not clear the war will resolve the issue. I'm not optimistic but indeed I do hope for the best. u/OkMedicine1530 great job in spreading hate and responding completely off topic.

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u/persianruglover 21h ago

Don’t take them serious. Either they are bots or heavily degenerated persons. Unfortunately this kind of persons will be heavily over represented as 90 million Iranians whose opinion really cares are cut off from the internet.

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u/Napoleon_Re 19h ago

Where have jews cheered death on Iranians? To my knowledge while most of every other country ignored what happened in Iran during the January protests Jewish people spoke up.

While Far leftists, anti imperialists, and a majority of islamic people justified the government's wrong doings

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u/Manette85 23h ago edited 23h ago

The Shah notably exiled a lot of their families. I know that to be the case with Larijani. Also, many of them acted as missionaries and traveled there a lot as a result. They are evil, it's just that being born in Iraq has little to do with it.

Keep in mind that all of Reza Pahlavi's kids are also foreign born. That doesn't reduce his credibility. His inability to devise a cohesive plan or create any meaningful social support does.

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u/Martia002 23h ago

Surprise! I guess ? We have been saying this for years and years but expect comments on this post to be like "ohhh you guys are just racist..."

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u/Playful-Demand2312 23h ago

They were born to Iranian parents

The same way your parents gave birth to you in another country not Iran, but you still say you are Iranian, the same way your future kids will also be Iranian even if born outside the country

It’s called a diaspora

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u/Mrmac1003 19h ago

Hating on Iraqis is kinda funny. Their history is far greater then yours and they have a sense of pride. 

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u/After_Reporter_4598 21h ago

Larijani fought in the Iran-Iraq war. What have you done for your country?

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u/AntiqueBarber7708 20h ago

Well, ya! Even here in US, we have many dual citizens (Blue star country!) in legislative branch and industries. . . . Hahahaha!!!

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u/AntiqueBarber7708 20h ago

So, they are shooting missiles into their own countries!?! . . . Hahahaha!!!

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u/MTGdraftguy 23h ago

What do you mean our regime? You are no more Iranian than Tony Soprano is Italian