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Amanpour is not an Iranian American. Her mother is British and she was born in London.


The article could use a little discussion about the political implications of the terms Iranian and Persian among the American diaspora, and perhaps if anyone has any data, what proportion identify with either or both terms. --Delirium 11:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

  • I didn’t know that US Census estimates the number of people; I thought it was based on facts and figures and was very accurate! Are you telling me that census is a guess work with over 50% error? What a mess! Less than 60,000 Iranians migrated to the US between 2000-2005, so how the population doubled from 330,000 to 690,000? Doesn’t the immigration department know how many visas they issued for Iranians or how many have greencards or citizenship? What a mess! Kiumars


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I added on a brief description of the conflicts between the Iranian American adolescents in the valley and west LA.

SALAM —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mechasam (talk • contribs) 21:26, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Terminology?

I believe "Iranian" is the proper terminology in the English language for all Iranians, regardless of whether or not Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, etc. is their native language. I don't believe the English language makes any differentiation between, for example, Kurdish Iranians and 'Persian' Iranians. The term Persian Iranian is redundant. In the Persian language, Persian and Iranian (Irani) mean the same thing; Iranian is considered an ethnic group in the Persian language context. "Persian" is a meaningless term in the actual language itself, just like "China" and "Chinese" is meaningless in a Manderin context. The official English language term for the language is Persian; Farsi is the Persian word for the dominant Persian dialect spoken in Iran and is technically not correct when incorporated into English. Similarly, Parsi in India, Dari in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, and Tajiki in Tajikistan (although usually considered its own language now) can all be considered different dialects of the Persian language. Regardless of what is decided to be done, it seems silly to keep going back and forth between Farsi/Persian and Iranian/Persian. There ought to be more consistency. -68.43.58.42 (talk) 21:41, 28 November 2007 (UTC)





That T.j football player is half Iranian and he was born here in the u.s so he is not Iranian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.27.157 (talk) 04:53, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

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