Plz dont call my country Islamic
Iran is NOT Islamic
Islam was imposed on my ancestors almost 1400 years ago by the Arabian sword when the Arabs attacked my beautiful ancient homeland..

"I am Darius,the great king,the king of kings
The king of many countries and many people
The king of this expancive land,
The son of Wishtaspa of Achaemenid,
A Persian,son of a Persian,an Aryan,from the Aryan race."
Darius I Achaemenid the Behistun mount 521 BC.
The Darius or Behistun inscription is the oldest and the only documented ancient script where someone referes 2 him or herself as an Aryan
and this is how he looked like
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Painter
the Behistun or Darius script
www.iranchamber.com/people/articles/aryan_people_o…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behistun_Inscription

Due 2 all wars and migrations,2day Iranian is not a racial term its a nationality
Irans population by racial and ethnic structure
Persians 65%,
(including Gilaks and Mazandaranis)
Azeri Oghoz Turks 16%,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oghuz_Turks
Kurds (natives)10%,
Lurs (Persian tribes) 6%,
Arabs 2%,
Baloch 2%,
Turkmens 1%,
Turkic tribal groups (e.g. Qashqai) 1%, and non-Persian, non-Turkic groups (e.g. Armenians,Assyrians, and Georgians) 1%
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran

It all started when the Aryans migrated from Siberia into this land they later named Aeran (Iran, land of the Aryans) 4000 years ago..
they started living in different parts of Iran.
the word "Persia" is the Greek pronunciation of the Indo Iranian,Persian term Parsa or "Pars"
The Persian tribes settled in different parts of the Iranian plateau from North to south ,the Pasargade tribe in south were the founders of the Persian empire .
according 2 more then 30 000 tablets found in PersePolis, all citizens of the Persian Empire had the same rights as the native Persians,no matter what race,gender,or religion.
The true Aryans never claimed any racial or religious superiority..in fact king Cyrus the great the founder of the Persian empire made the first declaration of the human rights, he was the first person in human history who banned slavery and he set the Jewish ppl free from slavery when he entered Babylon 539 B.C..

the name of Pars (Persia) and its full meaning in pure old Persian Avestan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_people

the true Aryans (who unlike the "fake ones" never claimed any racial superiority