@SALMAN AL-FARSI
Yes, just outside of language, religion, culture, geography, climate, ethnicity, traditional clothing, cuisine, music, Arabic dialects and wider ethnicity (Semitic peoples) and ancient pre-Islamic history then indeed Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula share nothing in common. Outside of DNA of course too.
It's like comparing Papuans and Finns in fact. That's how few things the people have in common. Irony might have been used here.
Of course each Arab country is distinct. Just look at Yemen and Oman for instance which are neighbors. Quite a big difference. Still all Arab countries especially neighboring ones have much more in common witch each other than outsiders.
Lastly many of the people that you call "Iraqis" were Arabs no different to Arabs on the Arabian Peninsula with lineages traced directly to people from the Peninsula.
Including almost all the famous ones during the Abbasid Caliphate.
Just like all the Semitic peoples originally came from the Arabian Peninsula and Levant.
Even Sumerians were thought to originate in Eastern Arabia and they for instance considered Dilmun (in Eastern Arabia) as holy land and wrote about it in the Epic of Gilgamesh even.
Farsis have nothing to do with any Arab country or Semitic culture other than copying it and for a short time occupying ancient Semitic lands. That's all.
Outside of Iranian Arabs of course who are almost identical to Southern Iraqis. Speaking the same dialect too.
Baghdad was built and funded by the Sunni Arab empire, lead by an Sunni Arab dynasty who are from Hijaz, now Saudi Arabia, give us back our city, or we will take it by force.
Yes, Abbasids founded Baghdad and ruled it for half a millennium but today Baghdad is part of Iraq and most locals are fellow Arabs whether Shia or Sunni and belong to the same Arab clans and tribes like neighboring Arab countries.
Anyway Iraq can do whatever they want to do. It's less than 3 years ago that they wanted to join but they won't join due to the geopolitics. If I recall only Kuwait and Oman support their membership.
No need to write silly "threats" brother. In the future when the region calms down and the idiotic sectarianism is left aside you will notice and appreciate the many, many similarities instead of those few issues that pick us apart.
Cooperation is the way forward especially economical. No need to hold hands and sing love songs but at least there should not be hostility between brotherly people.
Whether with Iraqis or Yemenis or other Arabs.
I am 100% sure that if you visited Basrah, Samawah, Nasiriyah etc. you would feel right at home outside of a slightly different dialect that you will/have no problem understanding anyway. Same people, same faces, same names even.
The Shia Arabs of Southern Iraq that you might dislike for sectarian reasons are actually extremely close to you people of Najd and vice versa. Both groups know it (the educated ones).
Imagine if Hijazis started hating Egyptians and the people of Sham due to them being Shia? It would make no sense when we have almost everything in common. Or the people of Southern KSA and Yemen?
@Full Moon as a Najdi understands this closeness between you and Southern Iraq and Iraq as a whole.
Population movements between the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring Iraq and Levant have been consistent since the first people crossed into the Arabian Peninsula (first human migration outside of Africa if we are to believe science) from nearby Eastern Africa and then there have been a very large number of population movements from the Peninsula into Levant and Iraq and VICE VERSA too for millenniums and until not long ago ago (150-100 years ago).
In fact a few Assyrian Kings died in exile in what is now Northern KSA millenniums ago.
Anyway most people are ignorants so I am not surprised by such nonsense comments. Most are politically motivated or due to sectarianism in the ME today.
We even have Arabs/Palestinians and Arab Jews denying any relationship contrary to every visible fact. Why? Due to politics and sectarianism and silly hatred.
In general the peoples of the ME share much more in common than differences but the region is almost more divided than Sub-Saharan Africa.
