Iran is a country which has been going through some things. It seems like they're always in constant protesting. Why is that and what is the future of the nation? #h0ser #iran #history
Just a correction: Persia didn't become Iran after the revolution. The king, Reza Pahlavi asked other nations to call Persia, Iran (which is what Iranians called their country for centuries) and they agreed to do so. Persia is a western alteration of Pars, referring to the tribe of Cyrus the Great, the Achaemenid Empire, and the region they were from. This name had been around in western books since before Alexander the Great even though it is not the country's name, Iranshahr.
Thank you for making a video on Iran 🇮🇷! I am an Iranian in UK, thank you for telling people of Iran. 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷 با تشکر از شما برای آموزش مردم ایران با شکوه! متشکرم
The history of Western/Persian relations is of competing influence and mutual harm that ends up being a detriment to both. The most standout example being the Roman ("Byzantine")-Sassanid Wars that resulted in both of them worn down, and when they were exhausted and had nothing left to give, the Arabs invaded and conquered them both easily.
The same thing happened in the horn of Africa when the Christian Ethiopia and Muslim Ethiopia( Adalites ) fought for centuries until the battle of weyna dega. Right away the Pagan Oromo's invaded both war torn countries. It was devastating and Ethiopia didn't recover until the 19th century.
I deeply regret the current state of poor relations between our two countries. Would really like to visit Iran sometime soon and experience firsthand the rich culture, literature (Rumi was one the greatest poets ever), delicious cuisine and warm hospitality of its wonderful people. Best regards, from the US.
This might be my favorite country animal design yet. Iran already has my favorite flag in Asia and top 5 in the world 🇮🇷 but you made it so expressive throughout the video.
I'm Iranian living in Iran. First I want to say all of your information are 100% spot on. Impressive how a foreigner knows this much truth about one of the most misunderstood countries in the world. As for my country I can describe Iran in this way: a country with great potential and great problems. From geopolitical standpoint, life in Iran is doomed to be like a roller coaster. That makes one of the most beautiful and diverse cultures in the world, but it comes at a HUGE price for the residents. Love and respect from Iran to all good people of the world ❤❤❤
I love how at 3:27 the caption says "take life eslow". That not only in the most common phrase I've heard from my Iranian family but the e in eslow is so dammed accurate I'm astonished he knew about it
Just one correction: In Iran 99.9% of the population can speak Persian/Farsi as it is the official language of the country however they can ALSO speak other languages or dialects such as Kurdish, Azari, Gilaki, Baloch, etc.
@@fanzy1338 Educate yourself. Azeri is Iranian language descended from old median language and has nothing to do with us. We speak Turkic which is close to Turkmen and Turkish language.
Agree. But in fairness. If this regime went down, while the current dynasty on KSA is still in power. Something very bad will be happen. Both of them need to go down, altogether.
It was until the Genghis Khan's sons came about, after that it was always in a decline, a bit of a revival in Abbas's the second regime during the Safawid era, but he was mostly just: "kill everyone who says no" typa guy, so it went back to straight decline after that. Also Georgians would have probably been Muslim if it wasn't for him killing everyone there from a baby crying to an old man dying.
@y38oub Can't move from where they live, are brutalised regularly, their safety ignored, forced to work, passports stolen, underpaid/not payed. Which means that they are owned by their companies, maybe not legally (although I don't know about that), but in all aspects of their life that count... what do you call that ?
@@Felishamoisthey cracked down on companies who do that. the new laws are wayyyyy better at adresssing these problems. tge country is improving rapidly
The Islamists didn't turn Persia into Iran. Persia has always been Iran. The Shah changed the name internationally in 1935 while the Islamists merely made it official cause some people still called the country Persia.
I love Iranian people. They are one of the kindest and the best, warm-hearted nations in the world. Forget about what politicians and media said to you. If you meet with them and speak with them you will see how real and generous they are. One of the most unique culture in the world. I hope things will go their best, they deserve a much much better government and life. Respect and love from Turkiye.
Just one note: Persia already changed its official outwardly recognized name to "Iran" by 1935. Shah Reza Pahlavi was getting buddy buddy with Nazi Germany and as a way to promote shared Aryan ties between the Persian/Iranic peoples and Germanic peoples changed the official name of the country to "Iran" (land of the Aryans). However, "Persia" and "Persians" were always terms used by outsiders to describe the country and its people (starting with the Greeks). Internally, the country and its people was always known as "Iran" and "Iranians" since ancient times.
A friend of mine is half Iranian, she and her father prefers both terms since Persian implies they are the same people of eons ago. I agree with your statement but to me it does not seem they will mind being called Persian just like the former wallahchians where always calling themselves romanian
@@yamataichul oh no, certainly not. What I'm referring to is a nationality term. "Persian" as an ethnic term is appropriate and correct to this day. And the Persians, Azeris, Kurds, Tajiks, Afghans, etc. are all cousins under a greater Iranic subrace (just like Germans, Dutch, English, Danish, etc. are all cousins under a larger Germanic subrace)
I've talked to three Iranians in my life. They told me about their great country, and how the west would be so much better if they emulated Iran. They were all living in Europe.
Depends, if the new government knows how to do things properly. And if the new government would keep their promises of liberal, secular reform and have an intelligent way of doing economics then sure. Or they could fail and become the next Libya
I've been reading the history of Iran for a long time now and you made the most accurate video I've seen so far on RU-vid. You pronounce the names fairly accurately too. Bravo!
9:11 Persia turned into Iran in 1979??? Where did you get that exactly??? Our people have always called our country Iran and the request to the international community to refer to our country as Iran instead of Persia happened in 1934 though it didn't became the norm until after world war II. Also you underplayed the role Safavids had in Iranian history. Safavids were the first time in almost a 1000 years since Sassanids fell to Muslim Arab invasion that Iran had unified under a native dynasty and the Safavids were the first after Sassanids to call their domain "the state of Iran" and thus can be considered the foundation of the modern Iranian state. Also Safavids, Afsharids and Qajars, despite speaking Turkic dialects, were quiet different from Seljuks or other nomadic Turkic tribes who conquered Iran. Afsharids and Qajars had assimilated and mixed a lot to the point that they became Iranian and Safavids had partial Kurdish ancestry and were native Iranians not nomads, though they had two generations of political marriages with Aq Qoyunlu Turkomans and relied on tribes, many of them Turkic for their military.
خودت میدونی یه مشت کصخل یوتوب دارند کصشر میگن همه هم یه نگاهی میندازند و میرند بیشتر چیز هایی که گفت خیلی خلاصه اش کرد یا اشتباه گفت و.... تو هم گیر نده کصخل نمیشه درست کرد همون تیکه که گفت خمینی گفت خلمنی دیگه چه انتظاری داری دیگه
@chad iranian Yes and no, the people of Iran are largely decended from those who have been here for thousands of years since genetic studies on the modern samples and comparisons with ancient DNA shows little change. But those people (the most famous of them the Kingdom of Elam) share little with modern Iranians in language and culture. The modern identity of Iran begins with the migration of Iranic tribes, a sub-branch of Indo-Europeans, they mixed with the locals and gave their language and culture resulting in the creation of the Iranian tribes the most famous of which were the Medes, Persians and Parthians. However the early Iranian dynasties didn't call their realm Iran. The Achaemenid empire called itself Xšāčā (Khshāchā) which simply means the empire, in those days Iran was a people and a civilization not yet a state. The first dynasty that created the Iranian nation state was the Sassanid empire. They called their land Ērānšahr, they had an state religion and language which was middle Persian. Meanwhile under the Achaemenid and Arsacid dynasties Persian or Parthian weren't even the official language, they were the court and royal language, the official language of both empires were Aramaic. So we can say that the Iranian race is about seven to five thousand years old or maybe older, the Iranian civilization, ethnicity and languages is three thousand years old and the Iranian nation is about 1700 years old. However, after the fall of the Sassanids Iran was divided or occupied for 850 years the Iranian national identity survived but it was dorment until it was brought back with Shiaism added to it when Safavids created their state which unlike the myriad of states in the 850 years called itself Iran similar to Sassanids. So we can say that the modern state of Iran is about 500 years old.
That's the most cope answer I know from debating with Persian Iranians. Azeris are ethnic Turks and the emperors of your Safavid dynasty and later on actually spoke Turkish as their mother tongue. Even diplomatic correspondence with Ottomans was done in medieval Turkish. And that's been the last 1000 years. So, no, your civ just ctrl c+v'd Elamites, rolled with it for another 1000 years and then were later on ruled by others, by Greeks, Arabs and of course even since by Turks. As a Turk I never cease to be amazed of how much Turkish TV shows are watches in Iran and how good the language is spoken over there. I hope, soon your country can be free and Azerbaijan can finally reunite.
Dude, our most celebrated, most important holiday is Zoroastrian. Iranians are not super-religious people, no more than anywhere else - it’s just that that rightwing terrorists took over the country in 1979. God willing, the Iranian people will take it back ✊🏽
@@H.ALHARBIdepends on who you say. Typically it’s used mostly by the Arabians that’s why some people call it the Arabian Gulf but in the past it was mostly used by Persians so more people call it the Persian Gulf. I’ll keep naming it the Persian Gulf
ایران هفت هزار سال قدمت دارد از همان موقع خلیج فارس بوده و خلیج فارس خواهد ماند عرب ها هنوز هم بی فرهنگ و دزد هویت هستند زیرا هیچ فرهنگ و هویتی ندارند همیشه در پی دزدیدن نام و تمدن ایران بزرگ بودند
can you make a video about the past and the future of Syria? I know its a small country that may be too complicated and non important to viewers so its alright if u don't, but I would highly appreciated!
As an Iranian I don't know about your other videos yet but I have watched couple of your videos on middle east and it's very surprising to me how much informed and precise you are on middle east topics
hey mehr! i am from kashmir india, i am really curious about the sentiment of the common people of iran, do you like ur govt? and their anti usa israel policies? iran is gaining a lot of respect since the gaza war though from muslims all over the world though from their strong opposition to israel, would love to know your answer!
@malikdanish197 Iranian people seem to be very mixed on that. Sole love some hate. Some support some oppose Though most of the opposition comes from those living abroad not inside the country itself
@@malikdanish197 this someboi guy is dick riding for the regime...as an Iranian I am telling you most of the people hate the government and they are all from inside of Iran
the one thing that does not unify us at all is religion. what unify us is the shared hatred toward the ruling regime which took iranian people hostage for the last 40 years, and after that although iranian people might not all be persians, they all consider themselves iranians despite the different backgrounds that they have.
@frayze5142 1- The country that has the most coast line of Persian gulf is Iran 2- "Persian" refers to a region in Iran not the name of the country 3- historically and officially it is Persian gulf and nothing can change that.
@@ARMAN-rv1er The Gulf is Arabian regards of what anyone think because every place is known by its people, and the Gulf is Arab because Arabs live on its eastern and western coasts, while the Persians are historically residents of the Iranian plateau and do not exist on its shores!!! I love Arabs for three reasons: because I am Arab, because the Qur’an is Arabic, and because the language of the prophets and Muhammad (pbuh) is Arabic
@frayze5142 It's internationally known as Persian gulf. If you go to school in literally ANY country they will teach you it is Persian gulf. That's officially accepted in the world. Such a thing can't be ignored because "arabs live there". By your logic it should be called Isreal because Jews live there.
9:11 persia didn't turn to iran,persians always called persia iran. in the 1930s the shah asked the west to stop calling iran persia but in ww2 to avoid confusion iran was renamed persia until 1946
@@karaqakkzl west called Iran, persia 🇮🇷 because Iran famous for persian empire and official language of Iran is farsi_( Persian ) In fact West was very crazy 😂
Well they are in most problems right now in terms of moving up the ladder. While other countries are figuring out measures to secure their future, Afg still has the task of building the proper concept of the nation itself. Hate to say this but it is just a region at the moment up for grabs for many influencers.
im from IRAN , im persian , and im telling you now the word of my own real people in my country and out of my country . all of them say : we wont allow this dictator and regime goverment and no one else to separate our countrie into small pieces , we all standing together Despite the different language and even religions . we are makinga huge changes , and soon it will happen . and by the way that flag from 1979 revolution ( we call it : sedition 1979 ) is not my people choice , Our real flag is Lion and sun flag before the 1979 that has been used . we will free our country once and for all .
This was great observation by you, great video. There was just one point that Iran has always been Iran it didn't became Iran in 1979 ; what happened was that "Imaperial state of Iran" became "Islamic republic of Iran".
I'm from Iran and not gonna mention the song you chose in beginning is a really Dancy song The lyrics is like: "Now my love come here The owner of my heart come here" And I can't pay attention to you and be serious while this song is playing
clarification: iran isnt 94% shi'a islam, thats just the governments statistics other polls that get the peoples input shows a drastically lower number
Could you do one about the 2 Koreas? North Korea nad South Korea could fit in a single video, and it'd be appealing to the average user due to recent nuclear tests performed by the Northern part
@@matthew_sylv by whom ?Arabs? You should learn to respect the history of other countries. Having money is not a reason to steal the identity of other countries. That gulf 2500 years ago, which the Sassanians found for the first time, was named the Persian Gulf, and it is called the Persian Gulf on all maps in the whole world, even today, if you ask an impartial person who has at least school-level education, the name of that gulf. It says the Persian Gulf
