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And at the same time, there is also the Mazandarani or the Gilak people that live in the Caspian Sea coast.

Mm-hmm.

They are also a different ethnic group.

They have a different linguistic background.

But because of the Iranian state policies of 100 years, majority of them are assimilated and no longer carry that cultural heritage or identity.

But in Kurdistan, in Balochistan, in Ahwaz, in Azerbaijan, it's really different.

And also in the Turkmen regions.

Basically, this is what Iran looks like.

Of course, there are other...

small minorities like armenians even georgians that migrated in yeah to like hundreds of years ago there are also several religious groups like the shia muslims are the majority which persians and azari turks are basically the followers of this religion and then there are sunnis sunni muslims

who are like majority of them are Baluchis and Kurds and Ahwazi Arabs or other groups.

And then we have several other groups from Jews, Christians, and also the Yarsanis, which is a Kurdish religious minority.

And there are about 1 million to 2 million people.

Yeah, this is what Iran looks like.

Yeah, but I also want to add a little bit more of like how this works.

So because the Iranians or the Persians are the majority, they own the state, the entire identity is evolving around them.

And because of this, during the past 150, 100 years,

There has been a policy of assimilation in every region in what's called Iran right now.

For example, if I want to talk about the language right now, the only official language is Persian.

And in the past 100 years, this language has not just been a language of communication.