SalarHaqq
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Khuzestan province is the rich oil province and his high GDP is due to that, but obviously local people doesnt smell that money, the real richer zone of Iran is Tehran (the capital, like every country of this world).
In that case, none of it would be counted towards the province's own per capita GDP.
But there are other examples. Relative to the national average, East Azarbaijan province isn't poor. Nor is Zanjan province, nor Mazandaran province. None of these are considered majority Persian. And they all have per capita GDP's superior to Fars and Kerman provinces, the majority of whose inhabitants are native Persian speakers.
As for Tehran, its population consists of all linguistic groups present in Iran. To characterize it as an exclusively Persian city would be incorrect.
The woman killed was non-Persian.
Many of the violent rioters killed in Tehran were native Persian-speakers. Thus, the lady who passed away (we don't know whether she was actually killed) represents one versus many.
When people protests because they have no water in Iran buffer zones in the border, the dead are non-Persian, and so on.
When they protest in Esfahan province, where in fact the largest demonstrations relative to the water issue took place, they are native Persian-speakers. And so on.
When I see rich kids of Tehran in Instagram, I only see white Persian people.
Iranians from different linguistic sub-groups cannot be identified by their skin color nor by their looks.
Skintone-wise, native Persian-speakers aren't any whiter than members of numerous other linguistic groups. Look at native Azari-speakers such as Supreme Leader Khamenei or IRGC general Baqeri and see how fair skinned they happen to be. In fact Iranians of different linguistic backgrounds for the most part are physically indistinguishable. And within most linguistic sub-groups of Iran, one will find multiple skin tones (there are pretty fair-skinned native Persian-speakers but also much darker skinned ones, same goes for many other linguistic groups).
As said, there's been heavy inter-marriage between Iranians of different linguistic groups historically, and this phenomenon has only intensified in the modern era with urbanization (around 80% now), development of inter-city transportation and infrastructures, public education and so on.
The Tehran bourgeoisie is also comprised of people from a variety of national linguistic backgrounds.
Every state works that way, one ethnicity ruling elite abuse and dominate anothers, and that's is not a problem for sustain the state working well.
The problem is when your abuse your own ethnicity people, then your state become unstable, and police start to disobbey orders.
In Iran neither of the two holds true.
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