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@al-Hasani would you prefer he just ignore the Arabs of Iran? You should be applauding him for trying.
Rouhani married his cousin, Sahebeh Arabi (Rouhani)[74] who is six years younger, when he was around 20 years old[23][75] and has four children.[76] Rouhani's wife changed her last name from "Arabi" (Persian: عربی‎ to "Rouhani" some time after marriage.[22] Born in 1954, she is not politically active.[74] The Guardian and the Financial Times reported that Rouhani also had a fifth child, a son who has died in mysterious circumstances.[77][78]
Rouhani has three sisters and a brother.[23] Rouhani's brother, Hossein Feridon, is also a diplomat and politician, a former governor, ambassador,[79] and former Vice Minister of Intelligence.[80] He was Rouhani's representative to IRIB in arrangements for presidential debates.[81] Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in a memoir dated 15 May 1982, mentions Hossein Feridoon as the then governor of Karaj.[82] Rafsanjani later briefly mentions Feridon in a memoir dated 31 March 1984: "In Karaj, something has happened about Mr. Feridon Rouhani".[83]
Ahmadinejad was born near Garmsar, in the village of Aradan, in Semnan province. His father, Ahmad, was a grocer, barber and religious Shia who taught the Quran.[26] His mother, Khanom, was a Sayyida, an honorific title given to those believed to be direct bloodline descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[26] Ahmadinejad's father changed his name from "Saborjhian"[27] or "Sabaghian"[28] when Ahmadinejad was four years old to avoid discrimination when the family moved to Tehran. Sabor is Persian for thread painter,[29] a once common occupation within the Semnan carpet industry. Ahmadinejad was chosen as it means from the race of Ahmad, one of the names given to Muhammad. Known for his relatively short stature, Ahmadinejad's height is reported to be 152 cm (5'2 feet).[30]
No, conquering the whole known world as our forefathers once did, including that of Iran. From Spain in the west to Pakistan in the east. Or live off the hajj, trade, pearls, fishing or other natural riches.
At least our oil and gas is actually our (Arab) and not foreign like in Iran.
Arabi doesn't indicate Arab origins. It could have several meanings, like someone who has been a diplomat, trader or something else in a Arab dominated region. In Holland you find Dutch surnames like 'Perzie (Persia), Turkenburg, etc. To assume that these people have Turkish or Persian origins is laughable. Arabs in Iran are insignificant and not one of those mullahs mentioned, in despite of their black turbans, claim Arab ancestry. They use their turbans for religious purposes.
Arabi doesn't indicate Arab origins. It could have several meanings, like someone who has been a diplomat, trader or something else in a Arab dominated region. In Holland you find Dutch surnames like 'Perzie (Persia), Turkenburg, etc. To assume that these people have Turkish or Persian origins is laughable. Arabs in Iran are insignificant and not one of those mullahs mentioned, in despite of their black turbans, claim Arab ancestry. They use their turbans for religious purposes.
And the Arab surname didn't apply to Rouhani. His real surname is Fereydoun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Arabs
1.5-2 million Iranians are Arab Iranians that have lived in what is now Iran for hundreds of years and even in pre-Islamic times. Mainly in Khuzestan, the coastal Southern regions etc. Cities in Iran were also founded by Arabs.
None of them are immigrants. Not more than Persians, Kurds, Azeri Turks, Turkmen etc.
So they are now not even citizens?
Those ancient Arabs speaking Khorasani Arabic are probably not citizens either I guess.
http://semitistik.uni-hd.de/seeger_chorasan_en.html
The so-called Arab immigrants (I doubt there are any from Saudi Arabia aside from those few thousand Shias that left a eternity ago) are not counted in that group since they are migrants and not nationals and thus do not count as "Iranian Arabs".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Arabs
1.5-2 million Iranians are Arab Iranians that have lived in what is now Iran for hundreds of years and even in pre-Islamic times. Mainly in Khuzestan, the coastal Southern regions etc. Cities in Iran were also founded by Arabs.
None of them are immigrants. Not more than Persians, Kurds, Azeri Turks, Turkmen etc.
So they are now not even citizens?
Those ancient Arabs speaking Khorasani Arabic are probably not citizens either I guess.
Ulrich Seeger The Arabic Dialect of Khorasan
The so-called Arab immigrants (I doubt there are any from Saudi Arabia aside from those few thousand Shias that left a eternity ago) are not counted in that group since they are migrants and not nationals and thus do not count as "Iranian Arabs".
Arabs in Iran are so insignificant that their votes don't even matter, they put their numbers at 1-2% of the population, but that is also disputed, since there are over 500.000 refugees in Iran from Iraq, but also we have refugees from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain that moved to iran in 1940. many without citizens ship, the real Iranain arabs inhibit several small villages in Khuzestan proviance, their number is less than 20,000.....
Some numbers point out to 500.000. They are relatively insignificant, on the social, political or any other level. We have many Iraqi refugees, but since Saddam has been gone, the government should try to stimulate them to go back.