Iranian
Americannoun
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a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Iran
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a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, divided into West Iranian (including Old Persian, Pahlavi, modern Persian, Kurdish, Baluchi, and Tajik) and East Iranian (including Avestan, Sogdian, Pashto, and Ossetic)
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Also: Persian. Farsi. the modern Persian language
adjective
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relating to, denoting, or characteristic of Iran, its inhabitants, or their language; Persian
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belonging to or relating to the Iranian branch of Indo-European
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The comments came as transit through Hormuz has dropped significantly, with Iran targeting ships it accuses of skirting its preferred route through Iranian waters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 8, 2026
Another American official said the U.S. would lift its blockade on Iranian ports if Tehran opened the strait without impediments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a similar bilateral agreement last year, months before the kingdom came under attack from Iranian missiles and drones during the current conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Test your news knowledge: Between Iranian cyberattacks, wildfires, and the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, a lot has happened this week.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
I didn’t know of any Iranian recipes that involved baking romaine lettuce into bread, but that didn’t mean there weren’t any.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Do the leakers think this public admission of weakness will make the Iranians more likely to open the Strait?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
However, then Housing Secretary Steve Reed told BBC News at the time there was "no specific assessment that the Iranians are targeting the UK - or even could if they wanted to".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
“The Iranians may be less willing to engage diplomatically because they’ve been burned several times in the past,” she said.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Iranians believed that “Witkoff had meetings with high-level Israelis before and immediately after” he met with them, Mousavian said.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Iranians give the Brits a run for their money in the polite department.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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