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Simple sentences
The best advice to follow when buying a Persian carpet is to have a good knowledge of carpets!
There is an old story about a Persian cat.
A Persian cat was sleeping under the table.
Although Iran is nowadays known for being a stronghold of Shia Islam, most Persian Muslims were Sunni until the XVth century.
Tom bought a Persian rug.
Do you want to learn Persian?
Persian is not a difficult language.
Translate Persian literature into Esperanto.
Long live the Persian language!
Historically, the Persian Gulf belongs to Iran.
The persian cat slept on the table.
There was a Persian cat sleeping on the table.
The Persian Gulf is located between Iran (Persia) and the Arabian Peninsula.
I speak the Persian language.
Movie subtitles
I decided to buy Mr. Smith. but I turned away for a moment to look at a Persian kitten.
The Persian Room at four?
The Red Sea is hot, all right. So's the Persian Gulf.
I want two tickets to The Seven Year Itch, table for two at the Colony before the show, a table for two at the Persian Room after the show.
We saw The Seven Year Itch, then went on to the Persian Room.
If you put on Persian music. I can do a great striptease.
Tell me, did you see Demaratus in the Persian camp?
I'll bring ten Persian slave girls to wait on you hand and foot.
Not many of that Persian patrol got away.
The Persian camp is disrupted.
A Persian herald.
A Spartan king needs no escort to talk to a mere Persian.
The whole Persian army is watching them.
With Persian markings on their sails.
Persian paw.
Table for two at The Colony before the show, table for two at The Persian Room after the show.
We saw The Seven Year Itch and went on to The Persian Room.
When we drowned, in the Persian Gulf, with the Duke of Windsor the Duke never thought of deducting the price of his yacht from my wages! Sorry. It's my fault.
A what? A Persian rug merchant?
The Persian Gulf, perhaps.
Why the Persian Gulf?
That's worse than the Persian Gulf.
Yes. Word of a Persian defeat by the Greeks.
Did you know that the Persian warriors always played backgammon. after a hard day on the battlefield?
In any case it is a Persian proverb that says so.
Babylonian, Baal, Egyptian. Sethtyphon, Persian, Asmodeus. Hebraich, Moloch.
Based in America, the Airborne Alert Force. is deployed from the persian Gulf to the Arctic Ocean.
Neither the starving little Asians, nor the little Irish who beg in the streets, neither the little blacks, nor the little Persian students, nor the little Arab.
I even saw in a dream that I taught crocodiles to read in Persian.
I've been on persian radio.
Hey, my mom had a Persian.
Yeah, Persian, Maltese, Burmese, Manx, calicoes.
I ran and saw on persian rug two embraced bodies!
I was just checking the files, and I came across this carbon copy of an inquiry he sent to Persian Gulf command.
A Persian shawl? Or a cat from overseas?
News and current affairs
In the Iranian worldview, there are three great ancient Asian civilizations: Chinese, Indian, and Persian (with Persia being the greatest).
The second crisis, in 1979, is usually attributed to supply disruptions from the Persian Gulf following the Islamic revolution in Iran and the subsequent start of the Iran-Iraq war.
America's destruction of Iraq as a regional power handed hegemony in the Persian Gulf - whose centrality to Western interests cannot be overstated - to Iran's Shia Islamist regime on a silver platter.
During World War II, Allied soldiers occupied Iran, using the country as a way station to transport supplies from the Persian Gulf to the Soviet Union.
As author Afshin Molavi wrote in his incisive travelogue Persian Pilgrimages, Iranian youth today are not revolutionary idealists, like those of three decades ago.
In the Middle East, the Iraq war is widely interpreted as a war for US control of Persian Gulf oil - a rather plausible view given what we know about the war's true origins.
And the going is now getting quite rough in Iran and the Persian Gulf.
Interestingly, in the midst of the political transition, Musharraf embarked on a week-long visit to China to lobby for construction of an oil and gas pipeline between China and the Persian Gulf that would be routed through Pakistan.
Elites in Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states have the financial clout of the most advanced countries, yet not a single Arab state has a seat in the Security Council or is a member of the G-7.
Our efforts to establish a regional security and cooperation arrangement in the Persian Gulf date back to 1986, at the height of the war with Iraq.
Our Iranian problem is actually a problem with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, or in Persian Pasdaran) and allied institutions like the Basij militia.
Threats to the wealthier Persian Gulf states, in particular, are exaggerated.
But the 1991 Persian Gulf War upset whatever solace Israel could take from the past.
Another part of the problem is the brazen manipulation of the Persian Gulf region by the UK and US to ensure their oil security.
But the stakes in Libya today are more appropriately underscored by the tragedy in southern Iraq in the waning days of the Persian Gulf War 20 years ago.
But China's capacity to maintain these conditions is extremely limited - and in some cases (as in the Persian Gulf), it is heavily dependent on US military power.
The oil that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf have in abundance also works against democracy, for it creates an incentive for the rulers to retain power indefinitely.
But the really big money now, more often than not, is made outside the West, in China, the Persian Gulf, and even Russia.
But there is also a clear view that Arab-Persian, Sunni-Shia, or more straightforward regional power anxieties would make a nuclear-arms race inevitable.
The next year, the Persian emperor, Yazdegerd III, fled to the border province of Khorasan and the Arabization of Persia began, with Persians taking Arab names and converting to Islam.
But now he has ostensibly resurfaced, like a Persian Cincinnatus, to help Iran in its hour of need.
Back in 2007, Iranian forces captured a group of British sailors in the Persian Gulf, releasing them a few weeks later under strong pressure from the United Kingdom.
With the entire world affected by turmoil in the Persian Gulf and greater Middle East, perhaps that is all to the good.