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#border
Lonely Planet Iran (travel Guide)
Iran's ethnic groups
The Persians, or Farsis, were originally the tribes that came to establish the Achaemenid Empire and now make up about 50% of the population. [..] Commonly called ‘Turks’ in Iran, the Azaris make up about 25% of the population. They speak Azari Turkish, a dialect mixing Turkish…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Jet fighters near the Afghan border
‘Khaled! Yeah! Are you okay?’ ‘Sure. Jet fighters! Fuck me! Two of them. Not far overhead. A hundred feet, man, no more than that. Fuck! They were really smashing up the sound barrier! What a noise!’ ‘Were they Russians?’ ‘No, I don’t think so. Not this close to the border…