If you open the first page of human history, you will see that for the first time on Earth some human beings in this part of Earth wanted to have peace on Earth and bulid a civilization.
Civilization began when the people felt they were not a threat to their neighbour and could cooperate t build a better life on Earth. Ancient Iranians invented writing an this was neccessary in order that information could regarding property could be passed down. The Pro-Elamite language is the mother of all languages. The ancient Iranians wrote a lot and much of it has been lost by religious invasions that wanted to establish themselves by destroying the past. Of course that has failed and we Iranians via the vocal tradition have kept the ancient books. The Zend Avesta is one such book and its ancient chapters connect to the Rig Veda. These are books that relate to 12780 years of history as based on the Hezar Bahreh calendar.
So the roots of Iranians are very deep, perhaps the deepest as the famous Gnome project suggests. Iran was the central hub from which human migration from Africa crossed the Straits of Hormuz and the dispersed all over the continent. So the Iranian plateau has been the cross roads of civilizations for millennia. That is why three world Empires each three hundred years were created by the people and each lasted three hundred years. This could not be done if there were no strong between the individual people in that area. So the ability of Iranians to be civil is the strongest.
In literature the people of Iran have contributed to works that have shown our ability to be civil. You only need to look at Hafez or Saadi or Molana that were written after religion was destroyed that we see the Iranians create and flourish. So religion was the only force that manged to prevent Iranfrom development from the 7th Century to the 11th. For two hundred years the art of Iran grew and Iranians fourished.
The power of religion managed to destroy the ability of Iranians to be at peace and create. This has been the Achilles heal of Iran and recently it has been used to keep Iran down. The people who have the weapons have terrorised the peace loving Iranians. The weapon traders of this world and other people who do not want a ressurgence of Iran, have helped the Ayatollahs to remain. But the people of Iran have defied the Ayatollahs everyday non violently as recently as 20 March, when we carried out our Noruz ceremony at the exact time of 23:21 GMT of the Spring Vernal Equinox as we have for the past 12780 years. But the world media will not refer to it, as much as it should because they want to keep the Ayatollahs in power, even though they just have guns, and no love from Iranians. The last thing the media want is civilized Iranians running Iran.
So Iran has been the Bogey Man of the area. No one knows of our historical heritage. They see us as Moslem fanatics, hell bent on being the arch enemy of USA. Of course this only benefits the US which needs fear to keep its military industry alive. The moment there are other better enemies for the US then they will let Iranians get rid of the Ayatollahs, and not them fool the world with their own fake opposition pretending to want regime change.
Please do not refer to the activities of the Ayatollahs, as Iranian. Respect the word "Iran" and keep it separate from the horrible things the Ayatollahs are doing to Iran's heritage.
Thank you and Happy Noruz for you everyday. Noruz Har Ruz Piruz,