Shapur Zol Aktaf
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Almost 50% of Islamic knowledge (how to pray, history of islam etc) is due to non-arabs. Almost all hadiths were written by Iranians. There is no doubt than a single Indo-Iranian (aryan) ethnic group existed 4000 years ago (not 2800) which eventually spread into what is today known as Pakistan, Iran, India, Afghanistan etc.So let's get back to 1979. You have a coup d'état and some unknown Mullah (outside the borders of Iran) comes to power and one of the first things he says are hostile and threatening comments about "illegal Arab regimes" next door, "Makkah and Madinah being controlled by pagans" etc.
So fellow Arab neighbors should have supported non-Arabs and a hostile regime? Great logic.
The only Arab country that supported you was the Al-Assad dynasty in Syria and that was due to their silly Ba'athi rivalry with Iraq. The Syrian people were not in agreement.
Events in Syria have little to do with Iran if anything at all. Yes, I am sure that the 1000's of Iranians who have died in Syria for nothing agree.
Nobody is praising anyone. 99% of the Sahaba were Arabs. Likewise writers. Religion in the Arab world is dismissing as well in case you do not know. Islam too is just one of the many religions of Arabs and Semites. Our ancestors used to believe in the oldest recorded religions prior to Islam (millions are still Christians and Jewish - fellow Semitic religions).
No such ethnicity like Indo-Iranian (genetically proven ages ago), lol, and so-called Indo-Iranian figures can be counted on two hands. Most of them being Afghans/Tajiks and Persians from Eastern Iran. Arabized mind you. With Arabi names. That wrote in Arabic (language of science and culture back then). Muslims. Not Zoroastrians.
Anyway nobody cares. I don't care about how many Muslims there are. Although there are 1.4 billion or 1.6 (don't recall currently and don't bother to google). Islam is not the only religion of Arabs. Yet that influence alone predates anything on the Iranian side of the border. That's amazing considering that the oldest civilizations are found in the Arab world.
However luckily the trend to take pride in our glorious pre-Islamic history is gaining 1000's of Arab followers each day. That can easily be combined with Islam. We should take pride in all aspects of our history.
While you likes, despite following Islam for more than 50% of your recorded history as Iranians (2800 years), want to erase it, yet that will never happen. To erase it, is to erase most of Iran's current day culture. You erase your most visited places (tombs of dead Arabs), 1000's of elaborate mosques etc. What will be left will be a few newly built fire temples (or whatever they are called) in Yazd. I know that this frustrates you. It would frustrate me to death too if my people had suffered from the opposite for 1400 years. So I don't blame you.
It will just go/be minimized/fade away, just like christianity in many places in Europe. They don't erase their culture, they just turn the church into a beautiful cafe or library.
Same can be done with nice mosques, which by the way already have plenty of Iranian architecture in them, so they were already partly Iranian.
We keep the places of death arabs to attract arab/international visitors and tourists which will bring money. We should polish them, spray them with perfumes and repair/repaint any damage to these buildings.
Culture is dynamic, it can be kept, revived, changed etc. I'm just seeing this trend/developement in the region and this is natural as you see trends in population growth. Time and education are responsible for this trend, both of them something that we can't stop.