Due 2 all wars and migrations,2day Iranian is not a racial term its a nationality
Irans population by racial and ethnic structure
Persians 65%,
(including Gilaks and Mazandaranis)
Azeri Oghoz Turks 16%,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oghuz_Turks
Kurds (natives)10%,
Lurs (Persian tribes) 6%,
Arabs 2%,
Baloch 2%,
Turkmens 1%,
Turkic tribal groups (e.g. Qashqai) 1%, and non-Persian, non-Turkic groups (e.g. Armenians,Assyrians, and Georgians) 1%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran
It all started when the Aryans migrated from Siberia into this land they later named Aeran (Iran, land of the Aryans) 4000 years ago..
they started living in different parts of Iran.
the word "Persia" is the Greek pronunciation of the Indo Iranian,Persian term Parsa or "Pars"
The Persian tribes settled in different parts of the Iranian plateau from North to south ,the Pasargade tribe in south were the founders of the Persian empire .
according 2 more then 30 000 tablets found in PersePolis, all citizens of the Persian Empire had the same rights as the native Persians,no matter what race,gender,or religion.
The true Aryans never claimed any racial or religious superiority..in fact king Cyrus the great the founder of the Persian empire made the first declaration of the human rights, he was the first person in human history who banned slavery and he set the Jewish ppl free from slavery when he entered Babylon 539 B.C..
the name of Pars (Persia) and its full meaning in pure old Persian Avestan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_people
the true Aryans (who unlike the "fake ones" never claimed any racial superiority
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan
Cyrus the great cylinder,the first charter of human rights
As an adaptation of the Latin Arianus, referring to Iran,'Aryan' has "long been in English language use".[4] Its history as a loan word began in the late 1700s, when the word was borrowed from Sanskrit ā́rya- to refer to speakers of North Indian languages.[4].When it was determined that Iranian languages — both living and ancient — used a similar term in much the same way (but in the Iranian context as a self-identifier of Iranian peoples), it became apparent that the shared meaning had to be driven from the ancestor language of the shared past, and so,by the early 1800s,the word 'Aryan' came to refer to the group of languages deriving from that ancestor language, and by extension,the speakers of those languages.[5]
all Indo-European(Porto-Iranian ), languages are driven from the Sanskrit and the Persian Avestan(all native speakers of Indo-European languages (such as modern Persian,Italian, English ,Russian, German, Armenian,Greek, Kurdish etc) are considered Aryans.
http://www.fact-archive.com/encyclopedia/Aryan
The term Indo-European has a supra-ethnic significance ,
Indo-European people (Aryans) are also recognized by their Native (not adopted) IE tongues
the Persian language and people belong to the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European people and languages
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