A very good friend of mine always refers to herself as Persian, although she was born in Pakistan, her formative years were in Iran. Last year I had the pleasure of her company on a weeks holiday, with a few other friends. An amazing lady, she spoke several languages, including Nepalese and some kind of pidgin Urdu. She runs a successful business, and her older siblings, now retired, emigrated to the USA many years ago where by all accounts they too were tremendously successful in business.
She would wax lyrical about Iran, the scenery and kindness shown to total strangers, and sadly it’s somewhere I don’t envisage visiting in my lifetime.
Just don’t ask her about religion. She’s prone to apoplectic fits of rage.
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