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Amanpour is not an Iranian American. Her mother is British and she was born in London.


The article could use a little discussion about the political implications of the terms Iranian and Persian among the American diaspora, and perhaps if anyone has any data, what proportion identify with either or both terms. --Delirium 11:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • I didn’t know that US Census estimates the number of people; I thought it was based on facts and figures and was very accurate! Are you telling me that census is a guess work with over 50% error? What a mess! Less than 60,000 Iranians migrated to the US between 2000-2005, so how the population doubled from 330,000 to 690,000? Doesn’t the immigration department know how many visas they issued for Iranians or how many have greencards or citizenship? What a mess! Kiumars


818 v. 310

I added on a brief description of the conflicts between the Iranian American adolescents in the valley and west LA.

SALAM —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mechasam (talk • contribs) 21:26, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Terminology?

I believe "Iranian" is the proper terminology in the English language for all Iranians, regardless of whether or not Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, etc. is their native language. I don't believe the English language makes any differentiation between, for example, Kurdish Iranians and 'Persian' Iranians. The term Persian Iranian is redundant. In the Persian language, Persian and Iranian (Irani) mean the same thing; Iranian is considered an ethnic group in the Persian language context. "Persian" is a meaningless term in the actual language itself, just like "China" and "Chinese" is meaningless in a Manderin context. The official English language term for the language is Persian; Farsi is the Persian word for the dominant Persian dialect spoken in Iran and is technically not correct when incorporated into English. Similarly, Parsi in India, Dari in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, and Tajiki in Tajikistan (although usually considered its own language now) can all be considered different dialects of the Persian language. Regardless of what is decided to be done, it seems silly to keep going back and forth between Farsi/Persian and Iranian/Persian. There ought to be more consistency. -68.43.58.42 (talk) 21:41, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]





That T.j football player is half Iranian and he was born here in the u.s so he is not Iranian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.27.157 (talk) 04:53, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image Sizes

The image of Goli Ameri is smaller than those of Farhad Rostampour and Anousheh Ansari. They should be uniform across all three. I cannot seem to figure it out as they are all listed as 75px. Can someone please correct? Johndoe555 (talk) 18:08, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

shokof

even though Mr.Shokof is an extraordinary individual (who happens to be of Iranian origin) and (doubtlessly) with the most respected body of works , i doubt he would be an American. i guess he only studied in the USA? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.187.90.198 (talk) 15:18, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

similar is true for christiane amanpour, who is actually british. working for CNN doesn't make her an (iranian-) american. --Severino (talk) 17:31, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

shokof+amanpour

regardless of being a US citizen or not, they are both of Iranian origins and should be addressed as elites of the world (each respectively)in their fields of contributions to the world and humanity, no matter where they really come from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.14.205.101 (talk) 18:41, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If they are not Americans, then they do not fit the definition and should not be included in the article. Kman543210 (talk) 22:38, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i am almost certain Mr.Shokof needed to travel to the USA in order to attend a retrospective of his films at a festival,and could not get the visa . how could he be a US. citizen?! i know he grew up in the states most of his life, but i strongly doubt he is an american. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.168.108.128 (talk) 12:08, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

shokof, and reza pahlavi

I suppose those two names are mentioned as notable iranians living or having grown up in the USA. it should be evident to everyone that reza pahlavi can not be an American with hopes to become iran,s next king? i would imagine daryush shokof is also there as he has become an icon figure in iran,s world of art and culture who did much of his works in the USA? i see nothing wrong with either names being selected most specifically. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.14.207.164 (talk) 10:57, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]


i agree. they are both prominents Iranians living in the USA, but not Americans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.134.126.2 (talk) 13:06, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sibel Edmonds

Please go to the Wikipedia article on Sibel Edmonds and try to battle off all these silly pan-Turkic retards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds

Sibel Emonds who is an Iranian-Azeri is trying to be claimed by the Turkish people as one of their own. They claim that she isn't Iranian, and that she's actually from Turkey.. They go as far as to say that she is a "Turkish-American", and have put the article under "WikiProject Turkey".. So it would be great if some people could help out in this annoying thing! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.5.148 (talk) 17:13, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I am looking for the total population of Iranians in the United States (not by state). Excuse me if I missed it, but I don't see that statistic on this page or any related wiki pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ditc (talk • contribs) 19:01, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Needs revision

A large portion of this article is made up of extensive direct quotes. This must be changed at some point. Bubaloo (talk) 20:50, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sources are ABSOLUTELY unrealiable..

some of the sources are ridiculous (as i have examined myself).. the entire page needs to start from scratch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Inspy (talk • contribs) 03:53, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Can you be more SPECIFIC? Btw, you have changed sourced data provided by the US Census as here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.116.251.98 (talk) 10:15, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
http://www.payvand.com/
if you spent some time even browsing the website, its totally bias towards iranians. i've always knew wikipedia sources were doubtable and bias, but thats just too far.
and also, that is an artical provided by the website in which Census 2000 CLEARLY did not state anything about iranians. hence most of the page should be scrapped and start fresh with more reliable sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Inspy (talk • contribs) 19:03, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Let's be more SPECIFIC. Before your edit, the original sources were:
1. http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=404 which is a study by the migration policy institute, which uses the Census bureau, US State dept. and the office of Immigration statistics.
2. http://www.payvand.com/news/04/jan/1191.html which simply quotes a US state dept study (Bureau of International Information Programs) and an independent study by the MIT.
These are ALL reliable sources.69.116.251.98 (talk) 21:23, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a removed edit that needs to be tagged "original research". Iranians have came to America for over a century, but the main ethnicity are represented by Armenians who were Christians from the northwest end of the Persian Empire the predecessor of Iran.

Iranian immigration to the United States began in the late 19th century, a few thousand Iranian farm laborers invited by the US government arrived in the farming areas of Southern California and the Central valley of California. but ceased to a trickle by World War II. The current trend started in the 1950's but has been continuous since the 1980s for usually economic reasons and to study abroad in US colleges.

The number of Iranians living in the USA until the Islamic revolution of 1978-79 was scant, but no question about the Iranian community in Los Angeles by the time was established. The UCLA located in the western L.A. community of Westwood had attracted Iranian students, and they established what became widely known as "Tehrangeles". + 71.102.11.193 (talk) 08:10, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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