Why do Iranians call themselves Persians in this country?

Question

Why do Iranians call themselves Persians in this country?

Answer 1

hi i'm iranian and turk. turk's of iran don't like to call them persian. iran has near 25milion turk and so atleast 25percent of iran don't like this. we like to be iranian. azerbayjan of iran and turk.

Answer 2

i am iranian too .

we call us persian because when 4000 years before some people came to iran in a huge population . they came from russian (land that is now russan) and they were "ariayi". they were 3 groups . the biggest group was " persians" . and at all they almost were in all over the iran . so we call us "PERSIAN ".

Answer 3

HI .

I AM VERY HUFF FOR THIS QUESTION. i am iraninan and call myself persian. OK!!

 IF I DON'T CALL MYSELF PERSIAN, SO  WHAT TO CALL MYSELF?!!!

Answer 4

Persians live in Iran, and this is the name of their race (about 70% of Iranians). Like Jewish people who live in Israel. Please have a look at Wikipedia. They have the oldest country in all over the world. I am now a tourist in Iran. Nice people and I really didn't expect this.

 

Answer 5

I call myself persian (pars) because I am persian. not azeri, not baluch, not kord and we are more than 70% of iranian people.
and all of people in Iran speak Persian (Dari) OK?
our country name is Iran for more than 2000 years and other countries called our country Persia because of the Persian empire OK?

Answer 6

In Iran Turkish people live that  they are called Azerbaijanian. For example some of famous Azerian cities are : Tebriz, Urmia, Zanjan, Ardabil, ... . Also There is some people  that they are called Lors. Thus some of Iranians are Persian and most of them are not Persian.

Answer 7

lol this question is 100% wrong
Greek ancient people called us the PERSIAN (Persia is Greek version for PARS, for example they used Persepolis but we called it PARSE(new popular of this name is: takht-e-Jamshid), we called our-self the Iranian.
so only non-Iranian people celled us Persian not us!