Ethnicities in Iran - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Iran is a magnificent tapestry of diverse ethnicities and faiths, all woven together by a shared history and an unbreakable bond to their ancestral land. Iranian Christians Mark Holy Easter in Tehran's Saint Sarkis Cathedral:

1) Iran has no history of "being a secular country." Under the Pahlavis, Islam was the state religion, and the civil code was based on Shiite Sharia. The criminal code was to be sure secular. But this is the same combination as exists throughout North Africa and the Levant.2) Iranians are not just "the Persian people." Nearly half of Iranians are of other ethnicities.3) There is zero viable path to regime change right now. In fact, the war confirmed that it is not a possibility in the short term

Iran's long history of terror and aggression