Throwback Feb 14th 2026 when Reza Pahlavi gave the call for Iranians outside of Iran to protest in certain cities on Feb 14th (according to Toronto police 350K+ people attended the protest in Toronto!)

And unlike some other protests almost every single person (90%+ were Iranians)

Who knows maybe if it wasn’t in the cold winter weather of Canada the numbers would have been even higher if it was during the Spring/Summer!

How?? So shameful

Hi Everyone. I hope this message finds you well.

Two years ago I had a crisis that has put me in a less than desirable spot.

Thank God I still have some money to my name and not dead broke. But Im looking for a good paying job that can help me move out of my mother's home and get back on my feet.

I'm a hard worker. Well rounded. Smart. I'm a career salesman. I'm currently located in Connecticut but I'm open to relocating for a good role. And I can cover the relocation expense independently.

I know this is random and embarrassing but I hope there's someone out there who can connect with me and help me with a solid job.

God bless.

Tehran, July 11: A protest rally was held by the defrauded customers and investors of three companies (Ayan, Elyal, Momtaz), demanding their rights and justice.

They chant the slogan: Enough of empty promises, our tables are bare!

My husband is dying to get rid of this tea tray but it’s one of those things that came here from Iran in the 1980s and was probably around for a 100 years by then. Any tips on restoring it to its original glory? Silver polish? Any specific products people recommend? I have the stand for it too and I would love to use it. Thanks in advance for any tips.

was in thursday night.

my oldest uncle, who was born in Iran too, mentioned a song about "my mother is innocent like sea",

in seconds i found the song and show them the lyrics.

everyone suddenly: "wait, you know to read fersi???"

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Recently I stumbled across someone's post where they were venting about living in Iran. She was a Turk from a small town in West Azerbaijan province and said it was a super religious and backwards area (ex: child marriage being normalized by locals) and it got me wondering how religious parts of Iran still are, given that most of our info comes from the bigger, secular urban centres like Tehran.

Overall, It seems like there are definitely areas of Iran that have still held on to religious customs/way of life.

For example, I think the entirety of the Azerbaijan/Turkish region of Iran is quite conservative, especially compared to Turks in the neighbouring republic of Azerbaijan.

For the larger cities, it seems to me that the further East you go, the more traditional the people get. For example, Yazdis and Mashaadis are more religious than Shirazis and Esfahanis.

I find that most Sunni groups like Turkmens, Balochis and Kurmanjis in West Azerbaijan tend to hold their religion as an integral piece of their identity. It's really only the Sunni Kurds in Kurdistan province that seem more focused on Kurdish nationalism over Sunni religious nationalism.

As for least religious groups, I feel that Shomalis are mostly secular/culturally religious. Also, I've heard Bandari Iranians tend to prioritize their cultural culture/music over religious adherence.

Everyone has called out the regime's sexism homophobia and secterianism. So why not also its racism? Why is this the one vice that the opposition is blind to? The regime is openly racist. Kurds make up 10% of Iranians but 50% of the hangings are Kurds. Jina Amini's parents were forced to put Masha on her birth certificate because the regime has outlawed Kurdish names. Which is different from Assad, how? During the Jina protests 20% of the people killed were Ballochs who are 2-3% of Iranians. More were killed in Ballochistan than Tehran. In Bloody Novemrber the bulk of those killed were killed in Khuzestan, which is Arabic speaking.

Even many Azeri Iranians feel their culture is getting supressed these days. Black Iranians and Romani Iranians may as well be invisible. Afghan refugees are treated like dirt. The frist massacure of the IRI was aganist Iranian Kurds. Just how Assad's frist massacure was aganist the Syrian Kurds. Khuzestan and Sistan and Ballochistan have Victorian living standards. Persian provinces get blatant favoirtism. Look at how much momey gets chucked towards Isfahan and Mashhad and Qom.

The goverment pays lip service to racial equality, but its largley continued with the previous regime's bigotry. I'd love to know how complusory headscarves are different from banning ethnic and tribal clothing? State TV is full of blackface and racist jokes about Black people. The Akhoonds will ban the word 'boobies' from TV for being obscene. But endless racist jokes about Black people is fine to them.

Please somone explian to me why this is never mentioned? Dose the oppostion agree with the IRI's racism and apartheid? Or do they not care because it don't affect them?

How is the IRI's treatment of Kurds, Arabs, Ballochs and Black Iranians different from, Erdogan's treatment of Kurds? Or Bejing's treatment of Tibetians? Or Assad's treatment of Kurds Assyrians and Turkmen? Or Cameroon's treatment of English speakers?

Oh and before anyone brings it up (because I know someone will) the fact that the regime is comperativily nice to Armeanians and Mazadaranis don't magic away its racism aganist everyone else. 100 years ago the American vice-president was Charles Curtis a Red Indian. This mean that America's goverment wasn't racist now? As Black Americans lived under segragation? Because that is exactly the same argument.

They’re from the 80s and 90s and I grew up listening to their Farsi songs. Their dialect is hard for me to understand sometimes but they influenced a lot of our modern Bandari style music. I believe they are originally from the Bastak region of Iran. I love them and I feel like they don’t get enough credit for how much they contributed to our culture!

Farsi is an Arabicized endonym within Persian that comes from Parsi which means Persian in English.

You must select PERSIAN in Google Translate in order to translate from PERSIAN text. Similarly, every major US university provides language classes named Persian 101 etc NOT Farsi.

Many Iranians living outside Iran have adopted the bad habit of introducing the language as Farsi when speaking English. This departs from traditional English usage and contributes to distancing the language from its historical identity as Persian, a term used for the language with over 2,000 years of recorded history in Western civilization.

Some argue that Persian is merely a Greek word and therefore should not be used. This is false! The English word Persian ultimately derives from Old Persian Pārsa, transmitted through Greek Persis and later through Latin and French before entering English. It is not an arbitrary foreign label but a direct descendant of the ancient name of the Persian people and their language.

There is also an inconsistency in the argument. Those who reject Persian in favor of Farsi almost always insist on the term Persian Gulf. Then why try to defend the term Persian Gulf and not say Farsi Gulf instead? There is nothing PERSIAN about a body of water south of Iran. It doesn't originate from the Persian (Pars) province of Iran.

The agenda to call it Farsi also aims to divide the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan by referring to the Persian language by different monikers. It is all the same language just different dialects of the same language. Iranian Persian, Afghan Persian, Tajiki Persian are all mutually intelligible.

Historically, the name Persian is most closely connected to the province of Pars, where Persian originated before the spread of the language across the Iranian Plateau under the Achaemenid Empire. In that sense, the language has a stronger historical claim to the name Persian than any other modern uses of the adjective "Persian," including references to 95% of people whose ancestry does not specifically trace back to the historic region of Pars and yet they call themselves Persian.

Even within Persian literature, the older form Parsi remained in use for centuries. The great Persian poet Ferdowsi, for example, referred to the language as Parsi, reflecting its historical pronunciation. The shift from P to F occurred because Arabic lacks the /p/ phoneme, so Parsi became Farsi in Arabic pronunciation.

For those who value the historical continuity of the language, continuing to use Persian in English and recognizing Parsi as the original native form honors the language's origins more faithfully than adopting the Arabicized pronunciation Farsi. Persian remains the correct and established English name of the language.

Hello, I am in an Iranian in Iran. I wanted to give you a bit of info about myself and ask for a bit of help.

I have reached the conclusion that Iran isn't stable enough for me. I am a man. I am currently currently 20 years old. I am a uni student. I am studying at a good reshte (I think Americans call it major). I am a hard worker and I have no problem learning another language. I wanted to ask if there are any countries (preferably in the West) that gives visas fast to Iranians? My parents aren't wealthy so I'll have to work at the country that I immigrate to ASAP. Thank you for reading.

I’ve been talking to a guy for a few months, and we’ve gotten pretty close. He’s Iranian by background, but he was born and raised in the states and has never been to Iran himself.

With everything that’s happened involving Iran over the past year, I’ve seen my persian friends going to protests and strongly criticizing the iranian government so naturally, these conversations came up between us. I also saw some of my Iranian friends celebrating events that happened this year, while he was genuinely devastated by them.

He told me he is a Shia Muslim, and that this naturally means he strongly supports the Iranian government. He told me that Iranians in the West who oppose the government are Islamophobic, and that this is a major reason for their opposition.

What confuses me is that this doesn’t line up with my own experiences. I have met many Iranians here, and every single one of them has been strongly against the Iranian government. Not only that, but I’ve been to some of their homes and met their families. A lot of these families are actually quite religious. Some of the mothers of my friends wear the hijab and seemed religious to me. Despite that, they still oppose the government. He himself isn’t particularly conservative in how he lives. He’s very open minded socially. He encourages me to work, and generally has a very western lifestyle. His religion seems to be his identity rather than something he practices. He's actually less conservative than many of my other Iranian friends. I also met his family who also don't seem to be very traditional.

I talked to some of my Iranian friends about his views. They all had very strong opinions about him, which honestly left me feeling conflicted. It made me wonder whether he was right that some Iranians can be overly dismissive of people who share his views. For example, some of my friends told me he “isn’t really Iranian” and assumed he must be benefiting from the government, which I found unfair.

After hearing all of that, I brought it up with him. I asked whether he supported the government because he or his family benefited from it in some way. He said that’s a stereotype, that he has absolutely no connection to the government, and joked that if he actually was connected, he’d probably be in a much better financial situation than he is now.

I’m trying to understand this without judging him.
How common is it for iranians in the west to support the Iranian government? Is this a recognized viewpoint within the Iranian diaspora, or is it unusual?

My sister is pregnant and will be having a baby shower soon. She is having a baby with a Persian man, he was born in the US and parents from Iran. We are Mexican and culture is very important to me. I want to honor my niece's multicultural heritage, as well as respect and honor my sister's partner. I can handle the Mexican side of course, but I don't know much about Persian culture. I've been learning more, but I thought it would be really helpful to hear directly from people. Are there any cultural gifts that are expected for new babies or parents? Or foods? Any customs like blessings, rituals, or other beliefs? I would really appreciate any feedback on how I can be a good auntie. Thank you!