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The Iranian peoples are a collection of ethnic groups, defined along linguistic lines as speaking Iranian languages. They are spread across the Iranian plateau, stretching from the Hindu Kush to central Anatolia and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf - a region that is sometimes termed Greater Iran. Speakers of Iranian languages, however, were once found throughout Eurasia, from the Balkans to western China. As Iranian peoples are not confined to the borders of the current state of Iran, the term Iranic peoples is sometimes used to avoid confusion with the citizens of Iran.

The series of ethnic groups which comprise the Iranian peoples are traced to a branch of the ancient Indo-European Aryans known as the Iranians or Proto-Iranians. Archaeological finds in Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East have elucidated some scant information about the way of life of these early peoples. The Iranian peoples have played an important role throughout history: the Achaemenid Persians established one of the world's first multi-national states and the Scythian-Sarmatian nomads dominated the vast expanses of Russia and western Siberia for centuries with a group of Sarmatian warrior women possibly being the inspiration for the Greek legend of the Amazons. In addition, the various religions of the Iranian peoples, including Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, are believed by some scholars to be important early philosophical influences on Judeo-Christianity. Early Iranian tribes are the ancestors of many modern peoples, including Persians, Kurds, Pashtuns and many other groups.

The term Iranian is derived from Iran (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 and/or southern Russia. In the late part of the Avesta (Vendidad 1) one of their homelands was referred to as Airyanem Vaejah. Te homeland varied in its geographic range, sometimes referring to Fars (according to Eratosthenes), the area around Herat (Pliny's view) and even the entire expanse of the Iranian plateau (Strabo's designation).

From a linguistic standpoint, the term Iranian peoples is similar in its usage to the term Germanic peoples, which includes various peoples who speak Germanic languages such as German, English and Dutch, Norwegian, or the term Slavic peoples, which includes various speakers of Slavic languages including Russians, Poles, Bosniaks or Serbs. Thus, along similar lines, the Iranian peoples include not only the Persians and Tajiks (or eastern Persians) of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, but also the Pashtuns, Kurds, Ossetians, Zazas, Baloch and others. The academic usage of the term Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples is distinct from the state of Iran and its various citizens (who are all Iranian by nationality and thus popularly referred to as Iranians) in the same way that Germanic peoples is distinct from Germans. Many citizens of Iran are not necessarily "Iranian peoples" by virtue of not being speakers of Iranian languages and may not have discernible ties to ancient Iranian tribes.

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  • dont judge a nation based on behavior of some idiots

    there r bad israelis ,and good ones,

    good iranians and bad ones

    good indians and bad ones

    ....

  • Iranian people pleas look after each other .fuck this government.they will go soon. they mother f******.we have to support each other.I love Iran.Iran is my everything.everything.evryting­xXX

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  • @parandehdarya You are honest.

  • I'm an American

    Ideates god bless the free world

  • What's happening to Iran.........??!!!

  • can u then explain to me why khomeinidajal left this kind of a comment --> mohamad represents the real islam and he raped a 6 years old girl when he was 54 years old

    is it true? because i have heard it from alot of people and on internet and on tv but i don't know what to believe =/

  • in France there was a sect or the master of this sect was the big paedophile but by invoking the freedom of religion (priority for the Americans unfortunately), he violated the children of his adherents every days during years.

  • Hey u pussy persian pussy.Thats the best u got.Where has all the fire of ur ass gone???Bloody persians.

    I am waiting the day Israel nukes Iran.Then u & ur persian culture will be history.I m eagerly waiting for tat day.U coward u bloody go & hide in some Brtish pussy.Bloody persian faggot.

  • cheshmetoon ro baz konid baba, ta key mikhaid bezarim in akhonda ba eslam keshvaremoon ba khanevadamoon ro yek ja beh taziha befrooshan.

    yek kami tarikhe VAGHEIIE eslam ro bekhoon vali behtar az hameh ghoran hastesh, agar to bitarafaneh khondish va khodet sad ta eshkale gheire ensani azash nagerefti baad baraye digaran tajvizesh kon, agar khasti ta man barat ayeh biaram va to boro ba har ghorani keh mikhay chekeshoon kon bebin rast migam ya nah.

    movafagh bashi hamvatan,

  • his comment shows it has been strong enough to put a fire in your ass and make you write this, so fuck off and go pray for your pedophile god, or his pimp the allah.

    what the fuck do you want here? this is a video about Iran, get the fuck(your prayeres to allah) out of here.

    anything you say goes right to your allah, I mean your allah or his pedo prophet gets it, got it?

    fucking bastard.

  • thank you for talking some HUMANITY and not pedo supportive!

    moslims still copy him and go to marry (RAPE) 6 to 9 years old girls, because mohamad their god did it.

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