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Another weird thing about this section on ethnic minorities in Iran & the human rights abuses they face.

On page 2 of the book, in the introduction, Benjamin opens a paragraph: "Iranians, we learned, revere their Persian heritage & culture; they want you to know they are not Arabs."

I underlined this because I thought it was very curious to not mention ethnic minorities when "introducing" the Iranian people. Yes, the majority are Persian. Weird not to mention the existence of others though.
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Later in the same paragraph she says "Yes, they are Muslims, & overwhelmingly Shia Muslims, but they celebrate ancient Zoroastrian holidays—to the dismay of conservative clerics." This paragraph is describing "Iranians," & she says "they are Muslims" as though that can be said as a blanket statem...