My name is Kourosh , an Iranian, son of an Iranian, an Aryan and having Aryan linage.

Being an Iranian is a godsend.

"If there is no Iran, may my body be vanquished, and in this land and nation no one remain alive, if everyone of us dies one by one, it is better than giving our country to the enemy."
-Hakim Abdol Qasem Ferdowsi Tousi

Greater Iran (ایران بزرگ):

In a sense the concept of Greater Iran, starts from the hisotry that originated with the first Persian Empire in Persis, and in fact is synonymous with history of Iran in many aspects. Persia (now called Iran) was the nucleus of the Persian activity, until the Qajar dynasty lost Persia many of its territories, including Afghanistan (to the British via Treaty of Paris, 1857 and MacMahon Arbitratoin, 1905), and its northern territories to Russia. Turkmanchey Treaty of 1828, after the Russo-Persian wars permanently severed the Caucasian provinces from Iran and settled the modern boundary along the Aras river. Treaty of Gulistan, in 1813, effectively resulted in Persia (Iran) losing, Azerbaijan, southern Georgia, and parts of Armenia.[9] Due to this geographic diversity, newly independent nations under Russian or British involvement, while maintaining a cultural or langauge connection with Persia, developed their own unique socio-political and cultural paths. In 1935, under the influence of the Persian monarch Reza Shah, Persia changed its name officially and internatinoally to "Iran" (meaning land of Aryan).



Culture of Iran:

To best understand Iran and its people, one must first attempt to acquire an understanding of its culture. It is in the study of this area where the Iranian identity optimally expresses itself. Hence the first sentence of prominent Iranologist Richard Nelson Frye's latest book on Iran reads: "Iran's glory has always been its culture."

Iranians were not only open to other cultures, but freely adapted to all they found useful. Thus an eclectic cultural elasticity has been said to be one of the key defining characteristics of the Persian spirit and a clue to its historic longevity. Furthermore, Iran's culture has manifested itself in several facets throughout the history of Iran as well as that of Central Asia.

The article uses the words Persian and Iranian interchangeably, sometimes referring to the language and its speakers, and other times referring to the name of pre-20th century Iran, a nomenclature which survives from western explorers and orientalists. Both are not the same however, and the cultures of the people of Greater Persia is the focus of this article.

Iranian Art :
Iranian art has gone through numerous phases of evolution. The unique aesthetics of Iran is evident from the Achaemenid reliefs in Persepolis to the mosaic paintings of Bishapur. The Islamic era drastically brought changes to the styles and practice of the arts, each dynasty with its own particular foci. The Qajarid era was the last stage of classical Persian art, before modernism was imported and suffused into elements of traditionalist schools of aesthetics.

Language and Literature:
Persian belongs to the Western group of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, which also includes Kurdish, Mazandarani, Gilaki, Talyshi and Baluchi. The language is in the Southwestern Iranian group, along with the Larestani and Luri languages,[ and the Tat Persian of the Caucasus

Persian has had a considerable influence on neighboring languages, particularly the Turkic languages in Central Asia, Caucasus, and Anatolia, neighboring Iranian languages, as well as Armenian, Arabic and other languages. It has also exerted a strong influence on South Asian languages, especially Urdu, as well as Hindi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Saraiki, Sylheti, and Bengali


People of Iran:

The term Iranian is derived from the Old Iranian ethnical adjective Aryana which is itself a cognate of the Sanskrit word Arya. The name Iran is from Aryānām; lit: "[Land] of the Aryans". The old Proto-Indo-Iranian term Arya, per Thieme meaning "hospitable", is believed to have been one of the self-referential terms used by the Aryans, at least in the areas populated by Aryans who migrated south from Central Asia. Another meaning for Aryan

همه دنیا تن است و ایران دل
نیست گوینده زین کلام خجل

چون که ایران دل زمین باشد
دل ز تن به بود یقین باشد

به نام اهورا مزدا، خدای یگانۀ هستی و گیتی،آفریننده انسان و
انسانیت

به نام پیام آور کردار نیک،گفتار نیک، پندار نیک، پیامبر راست گفتار حقیقت جو زرتشت جاویدان

به نام تاج دنیا، ایران،سرزمین تمدن و مهد تاریخ گیتی،سرزمین خدای جاویدان

به نام پرچم سه رنگ سرزمینم با نشان شیر و خورشید جاویدان

به نام پدر تمدن و تاریخ میهنم ایران زمین، کوروش هخامنشی، شاه شاهان، بزرگ مرد مهرورزی وآزاد دینی

به نام ملت ایران، فرزندان خاک مقدس اهورایی،که گیتی و هستی از ایرانیان شکل گرفت
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من آريايي ام . خداي من ايران است. پيامبر من کورش بزرگ است. امامان من
داريوش بزرگ،خشايار شا،مازيار،انوشيروان عادل، يزدگرد. امام زمان من کاوه اهنگر است. رو حانيون من فردوسي،مولوي ،حافظ،سعدي و ابن سينا. کتاب مقدس من شاهنامه است . اصول و فروع دين من لوح حقوق بشر کورش بزرگ است. عاشوراي من قادسيه است. شهداي من رستم فرخزاد و بابک خرمدين است. پرچم من درفش کاوياني است. بهشت من ازادي است. عيد من مهرگان و نوروز است. محراب
من دل است. دين من عشق و دانش است. ايمان من خرد است