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Everyone should read, it is an interesting view of Saudi woman studying in "Iranian studies" and bloging her experience, this strikes out right at the beginning:

" I have been living here for nine months now, and my experience with the wide majority of people that I meet – and you meet a lot in the hustle and bustle of Tehran and surrounding regions – is that people are able to separate between politics and individuals in a way that is in fact unique in the Middle East. Not one person I have come across has cared that I am Saudi Arabian; not one person I have come across has cared that I am Sunni."

Which I was telling to Saudi's here like @Fullmoon that no one really cares if you are Sunni or from anywhere ... anyway enjoy:

A Saudi woman details life in Iran

and the blog is:
saudiiniran
 
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Great blog @Siavash

What many people don't understand about Iran is that people's hates are generally towards governments, not people. On the ground and everyday life, people are not hostile to ethnicities or religions. If anything, the more exotic and stranger you are, in terms of religion and race, the more people want to treat you well. I mean, I think the person who gets treated the most unfairly is a normal, shia tehrani in Tehran.
 
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Everyone should read, it is an interesting view of Saudi woman studying in "Iranian studies".........
Well, it is an interesting experience for sure which I doubt an Iranian would have if he/she did in KSA what she has done in Iran. She knew the language and had some weird interest in the Iranian culture. We may also note that she had selected this unusual major for the love of peculiarity and doing something different. She wanted to make a point that has pretty much no precedent. Treating her in a friendly way is expected for a young lady. Most Persians and Iranians in general are friendly (at the face at least). They can be more friendly than many Arabs (Saudis included), and I have seen a good bunch of them to say that they "play by the rules", and show people the required level of manners.

They are generally more open minded than Arabs, and far more westernized to accept people's differences. There is also the casual taroof and taqiyya in everyday life which she either ignored or didn't realize. What this lady didn't speak about is the over-expressed nationalistic side of Persians, their self-recognized identity, the casual tahqeer تحقير of Arabs in their thoughts and conversations, and the rampant anti-Islam views among them. There is quite a bit of animosity towards her and her kind there (if she had explored that side thoroughly). But she preferred, however, to remain positive and neutral while using colorful descriptive language throughout the blog. @kollang
 
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Which I was telling to Saudi's here like @Fullmoon that no one really cares if you are Sunni or from anywhere ... anyway enjoy:

Just to keep the facts right...
The moment I enter Iran for the first time in my life, the bell boy at hotel asked me... if I'm Sunni...!
 
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My ex-girlfriend was from Saudi Arabia she loved Iran and had a lot of information about Iran's history, Saudi girls loves Iranian people and cultural but guys are aggressive and hateful.
 
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