>>507839188 (OP)I don't know why, but I like Iranians. They seems to still have their own national pride. They are not overly tribalistic like Arabs and can sort things out for themselves.
Choosing the Shia and gigachad Ali was a kind of contrarian move, but given the very few options at the time, it was the better choice as an almost ethnic religion.
Without their adaptation to the boring Arab desert jew shit, I can't even imagine how brilliant a culture they would have developed by now.