Sohrab Ahmari

I think it's really the outside figures.

You know, like the Mark Levin.

Yeah.

Yes.

So Iran, often a lot of Iranians like to describe themselves as Persian.

And I think the reason they do that, Iran is a very old term.

Actually, it goes back millennia and it means the land of the Aryans.

But some Iranians, because Iran is especially Iranians in the diaspora, because Iran is associated with the Ayatollahs and terrorism and so on, like to describe themselves as Persian.

But Persian is really there's only about 50 percent, 51 percent of the country that's Persian.

You have Kurds there.

You have Azeris, you have Lors.

These are different ethnic and linguistic groups.

You have Arabs, Baluch, Turkmen, Azeris and others.

And look, Iranian identity, national identity is multi-ethnic and it's holding together.

However, there are separatist impulses among these various groups.

The Israelis and others have been encouraging that, even as they tell the Iranian diaspora types that they want a unified Iran to be ruled by the son of the former Shah.

We can go into him later.

But at any rate, you know.

But look, in a country of 92 million, you know, he has some support.

I won't deny it, but I just think he's a fundamentally unserious person.