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  2. Iranian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry, or who hold Iranian citizenship.. Most Iranian Americans arrived in the United States after 1979, as a result of the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Iranian monarchy, with over 40% settling in California, specifically Los Angeles.

  3. List of Iranian Americans - Wikipedia

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    He was one of the four Iranian-Americans detained by the Iranian government in May 2007. Jafar Sharif-Emami, former prime minister of Iran (1960–1961, 1978–1979), former president of the Iranian Senate (1964–1978), and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran (1960). Exiled to the U.S. in the wake of the Iranian Revolution

  4. Category:American people of Iranian descent - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "American people of Iranian descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 387 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. 'A powerful hope': Tens of thousands demonstrate in ... - AOL

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    Mona and Tamanna, two Iranian American sisters in their early 30s who declined to share their last name because they feared for their family in Iran, said they were inspired to be part of the ...

  6. Persian and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani (sometimes called Hindi–Urdu) is a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and the Hindi Belt of India. It forms a dialect continuum between its two formal registers: the highly Persianized Urdu, and the de-Persianized, Sanskritized Hindi. [2] Urdu uses a modification of the Persian alphabet, whereas Hindi uses Devanagari ...

  7. Persianization - Wikipedia

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    Persianization (/ ˌ p ɜːr ʒ ə ˌ n aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ə n /) or Persification (/ ˌ p ɜːr s ɪ f ɪ ˈ k eɪ ʃ ə n /; Persian: پارسی‌سازی، پارسِش), is a sociological process of cultural change in which a non-Persian society becomes "Persianate", meaning it either directly adopts or becomes strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art, music ...

  8. Ihsan (name) - Wikipedia

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    Ihsan (also transliterated as Ehsan; Arabic, Persian and Urdu: إحسان or احسان, Kurdish: ئێحسان) is an Arabic masculine given name. Given name [ edit ]

  9. List of English words of Persian origin - Wikipedia

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    Etymology: Latin, probably of Iranian origin like Greek μόρρηία μὖρρα morrhia murra; akin to Persian مری mori, muri little glass ball. a material thought to be of semiprecious stone or porcelain used to make costly vessels in ancient Rome. [225] Musk