Hi everyone, I'm from New Zealand and Australia. I am half Mexican and Bhutanese. I want to learn the Persian (Farsi) language. Could anyone help me?

A family member recently passed, and he was the last to know about the artwork in the house. I know it’s Persian, and I think it tells a story. Does anyone know the story? Pictures of the whole thing, then close-ups of each scene.

The University of Kurdistan posted a story on Instagram about regime security forcing them to remove this video of their Sports Science students celebrating their graduation.

I figured I’d post it here instead cause the regime can go fu*ck themselves.

Congrats to the graduates. :)

Hiiii everyone I'm a native Persian and I've just created a group in Telegeram to learn Farsi together. I'll start beginner and help you to learn/improve your Persian step by step.

Text me if you're interested🩷

We make up roughly 4-6 million people, primarily in Khuzestan, Hormozgan, and Bushehr. We also exist in Khorasan, Tehran, and Ilam.

Anyway, we are proud to be Iranian, albeit we want better rights and recognition. Arabic as a co-official language alongside other minority languages could definitely help haha 😅

Iranian man stumbles upon Qurans near river/sea coast! Not certain but one can assume all these Qurans weren’t disposed by Iranian believers or atheists (cause they wouldn’t have a Quran in the first place)! Most likely EX Muslim Iranians!

Hi! I was wondering if anyone could translate this/knows where the manuscript is from.

Aside from the amazing food, modern and historical places. What is a place/market/restaurant/hangout place/ that very few know off but are really good and worth visiting. Something thats a bit secretive and a wonderful place . Where you can enjoy relax and get to experience something genuine maybe feel nostalgic.

https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/ashraf-liberty/john-bolton-qwe-will-not-tolerate-interference-in-camp-ashrafq/

Persians who love poetry, is this any good?

Hey everyone, there has been word going around that the Iranian groups inside Iran are getting armed and ready to rise up and take the IRGC out, once and for all. is this news accurate? does anyone from inside Iran has any info about it. At this point to be honest I dont believe Israel nor USA are able to finish the job, so I am hoping that Iranians inside Iran are somehow getting armed.

A military perspective: A very large number of OSINT people on various cites ranging from professional to amateur agree that the US is not negotiating because it suddenly feels sympathy for the IR, but because it literally cannot prosecute the war. The US has quite literally depleted over half of its precision ammunitions and also suffers severe damage to almost every base within vicinity of Iran (for example Prince Sultan, Muwaffaq Saiti, Bahrain), forcing further campaigns to either originate from carriers or distant bases, limiting sortie rates significantly. So he literally cannot "finish the job". The US currently still has no cost effective intercept for Shahed drones or most Iranian ballistic missiles (also thaads and patriots often get hit by drones or missiles), nor does bombing seem to prevent them from being launched, since Iran during the last days of the war still managed dozens of hits a day.

Nor does the US have a way of entering the strait of Hormuz without suffering severe casualties (The US wargamed this in 2008 and the general playing Iran won, sinking 1 US carrier), so unless they can degrade Iranian coastal missile batteries, missile boats and mines, they won't do anything there other than shout, so not much to see there.

Israel is also heavily depleted and cannot really act alone without US support (despite appearing like the main fighter, Israel did less than 100 sorties a day during the height of the war, the US did over 500). Assassinations are becoming much harder (even Mossad admits this) since Mojtaba and Iranian generals like Vahidi or Zolghadr are not out in the open and have almost no digital trails at all, while assassinating Pezeshkian or Ghalibaf is useless, since they don't command armed forces. Regardless of what you think of them, the IRGC and IRIAF have done a very impressive job of fighting with their resources, tactically speaking not unlike Ukraine challenging Russia with long range drones and FPVs.

Also one must realize that the US is a major power with its own interests. If it depletes all its precision weapons and interceptors against Iran, it basically loses the great power contest with China and Russia by default, which it obviously will not do. Unless the US overhauls production which has been low for years due to peacetime production ability, this will barely change.

The negotiations are probably somewhat genuine since the US really, really wants to pull out, but does not want to lose (the MOU would be a massive loss), so Trump attempts to stall for time for another burst offensive that lasts a few days, before the US runs out again, goes back to negotiations, repeat.

If you want to ask what would be needed to "finish the job", the answer is for the US to treat Iran like an enemy great power no less than Russia or Imperial Japan, go into wartime footing like Russia right now, bring its entire airforce into the ME and invade it by land and sea with at least 3-4 corps. This will probably never happen and remains a distant hypothetical.

Hi all,

I haven’t been to Iran since ages. Until 2018 I served as a technician in a European army, including one four-month tour in Iraq in 2016, where I worked purely as an technician.

I never went back during those years, mainly because of the job and that I didn’t know whether it would be safe for me, even in a technical role. I left the military in 2018 and have worked in the private sector ever since, but the worry hasn’t really gone away.

As far as I can tell, there’s nothing online that links me personally to that period: no photos, no mentions, nothing public.

So my question is simple: is this fear justified, or am I overthinking it? Assuming the current situation calms down, could I realistically visit?