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I asked him about it, and apparently he was just a bit socially awkward. He told me he thought she looked like an arabic full blood horse and how he was so fasc

I asked him about it, and apparently he was just a bit socially awkward. He told me he thought she looked like an arabic full blood horse and how he was so fascinated by it. He just failed badly at expressing it as a compliment. He is very much Iranian, and left because of political repercussions after the "Green Revolution" made it impossible for him to work internationally.

smnrchrds 11y ago
I am not questioning his nationality, I just asked about his ethnicity. I am an Iranian national from Azari (Turkic) ethnicity. We are not exactly a minority either. By some estimates more than 20 million Iranians are Azeri. [1] Fun Political Fact: The current supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and the currently incarcerated leader of the opposition (he was arrested after 2009 elections), Mir-Hossein Mousavi, are both Azeri. I just wanted to point out that Azeris are by and large Iranian. We share most culture and costums, but we have a different language and cuisine. Fun Historical Fact: Azerbaijan and Iran have historically been the same country. Safavid [2] and Qajar [3] dynasties which collectively ruled Iran for ~400 years were Azeri. It was less than 200 years ago that Iran lost half of Azerbaijan to Russia in a war [4]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicities_in_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnicities_in_Iran [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safavid_dynasty [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qajar_dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qajar_dynasty [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay