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How do you propose 44 million Persians could settle and persianize 8 million mountainous warrior kurds ( by govt estimate they’re more likely 12 million) . Heck even Kurdish women fight like their Parthian/Scythian ancestors (I don’t know any other ethnicities in the area whose women also fight like kurds/Parthians/Scythians)
If Persian rulers were really smart they could have had an Iran that stretched from Turkey to Tajikistan by having a model like the United States where each ethnicity has its own state and is represented in the central government
Iran didn’t lose Afghanistan because of Shite-Sunni. They lost it because the last Safavid was a total moron who didn’t care about Afghans respect or needs and the idiot Georgian George aka Gurgin Khan who was appointed governor of kandahar who abused and disrespected afghans. Afghans had no problems under the more reasonable previous Safavids
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