Explore Iran on Instagram: "“Iranian” refers to anything or anyone related to the modern nation of Iran — its people, territory, and citizenship. So: Every citizen of Iran is Iranian, regardless of their ethnicity, language, or religion and Iran is a multiethnic and multilingual country. 🇮🇷 “Persian” originally referred to people from Pars (Fars), a region in southwestern Iran — the heartland of the ancient Persian empires. Over time, “Persian” came to mean: • The Persian language (Farsi), one