I think what Anaoshak , is confusing is that the safavid king made a distinction between their Persian subjects and the turks ...
What do you think the movies like "Barareh" try to say ? the different treatment the Persians and turks received during those times...
I would put that percentage at 30+ , and turks aren't the only minority there are kurds , shomalis , baluch and arab too , so you see the Persians are the real minority
The safavids were torks , and took torks with them wherever they went , where do you think the Esfahanis have got their semi-Turkic sounding accent from ? they pronounce "ch" exactly like torks do
Esfahan is infact what Tehran will be like in the future , persianized torks , who only speak...
No one's even gonna remember that , certainly not with Obama and the ****** he is , the event got news attention cause the name of the Russian missiles were Iskander.
Iran is simply learning to play the "partisan" card like the USA does , now every single redneck in Washington believes there are actual "reformists" and "hardliners" in iran, well what can I say. the only difference between this time and the times before is that the IRI is now making fun of...
Iran was many things before islam , none of them apply to today , before islam arabs fought for the Iranian cause now iran fights for the Arabian cause.
dogwash? you mean jewish? :lol: anyway , I didn't bother to read the news , i'm old enough to remember the other times iran made "nuclear" deals with the west ....