I think
@AmirPatriot &
@Serpentine went a bit harsh on you
@Full Moon. That's an Iranian trait btw blunt and no sugar coating
You had a lot of different claims. I will adress them one by one.
Sure. Racism is real all over the world even. We all have prejudice, some more and some less.
I don't know about that. Non-practitioners is not the same as non-believers. Also do not extrapolate the stories you hear form us Iranians living abroad, on all of Iran. We do not represent Iranians living in Iran. Our views is not mono-iranic anymore.
This doesn't say anything about the level racism. In Sweden we have the same lingo where we call e.g. people from småland cheap, people from örebro for whining etc etc For the record, I am azari and I constantly use the phrase torke khar. And I have cracked 1000s of torke khar jokes to my azari relatives and they love it. Keep in mind, I am not saying that this means that we are not racist, but it neither constitutes a reason that we are.
Actually it is rather large exaggeration. You are painting with a large brush here, we need to break it down. I cannot recall any instance that an Iranian has been anti-Iraqi or Syrian or Lebanese. Actually I remember even during the war with Iraq we never said Iraqis, we always said Saddam, keeping apart the real enemy from the people. That being said, we are extremely bothered with a lot of the PG-Arab states, thats for sure. SA with salafist and wahabist ideology export. UAE whining about the islands they claim are theirs. Qatar which until recently have invested a lot to topple Assad etc. However this does not constitute us being anti-arab. We are anti-everything which is anti-Iran.
read above.
As I said earlier you really have to be careful who's views you are collecting. A lot of Iranians living abroad have an unhealthy hate for mullahs. Everything related to mullahs is evil. You cannot have a logical conversation with these people because everything just goes back to the evil plan of mullahs and that everything they do is to destroy Iran, even what is perceived as good is only a plot for a worse coming. Their views does not necessarily reflect Iranians in Iran.