Questions About Iran #3.5

[SoroushPersepolisi]

my opinions, and for what i have seen , the ideas of many iranians, maybe the majority

israel is a country, good for it, i dont like what its government is doing to palestine, hopefully they both solve their issues so they work out some peace and rest
netanyahu is a thieve and criminal , we dont care much though

obama is a nice speaker

tha sums it up

for what i know, nobody even cares much regarding these issues in the manner that is portrayed in the media (from both sides)

[PersianTakavar]

Originally Posted by Broflovski

don't want to start a sh!tstorm or anything...

But how do you feel about Israel?

about Netanyahu?

Obama?

We have no problem with any country east, west, south, north i hope that answers your question

[PNW_Architecture]

I hear Iran has it's own domestic auto company...what are your cars like?

[PersianTakavar]

Originally Posted by PNW_Architecture

I hear Iran has it's own domestic auto company...what are your cars like?

Iran auto industry is the biggest in the middle east, but we don`t make many cars right now, because we are under four U.N. sanctions.

[iranianwarrior20]

I think Iran produced some 1.7 million vehicles this year and approximately 1.5 million of them were passenger cars. We have several brands like Iran Khodro and SAIPA which are the biggest and do the bulk of the manufacturing and have their own cars/also produce under license and also some smaller auto makers like Kish Khodro, Morratab motors, Bahman, etc.

[soheilz]

Iran is ranked 12th largest automaker in the world. They export to Russia, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Egypt, Algeria, Bulgaria and more. The biggest Iranian auto company, Iran Khodro, also has production facilities in Belarus, Azerbaijan, Syria, Egypt, Senegal, and Venezuela. So Iran's auto industry is pretty huge.

[Aerithia]

True, but sadly it is underdeveloped and because of sanctions the cars they produce are pretty crappy if you compare it to new cars nowadays.

Hopefully the Dena and Runna will come into production soon.

[PNW_Architecture]

Originally Posted by iranianwarrior20

I think Iran produced some 1.7 million vehicles this year and approximately 1.5 million of them were passenger cars. We have several brands like Iran Khodro and SAIPA which are the biggest and do the bulk of the manufacturing and have their own cars/also produce under license and also some smaller auto makers like Kish Khodro, Morratab motors, Bahman, etc.

So is Iran Khodro it's own corporation or a subsidiary of Peugeot?

[Aerithia]

Originally Posted by PNW_Architecture

So is Iran Khodro it's own corporation or a subsidiary of Peugeot?

It is it's own corporation but it has strong ties with Peugeot.

[WOOLA]

I don't have a question

Before my Taiwanese friend had a Iranian travel
Iranians are good and enthusiasm
Monuments with history is the great
Many western reports are lies

May peace and happiness be with you always.

[Kutsuit]

I've got a question...

How do Iranians differentiate between W and V?

Seems like they use the same letter for both sounds.

[SoroushPersepolisi]

we have no "w" sound in persian so yea we pronounce them all as v lol

like "want" is pronounced "vant" , however most ppl after some practice learn the w sound , if thats what u mean

[Kutsuit]

Originally Posted by SoroushPersepolisi

we have no "w" sound in persian so yea we pronounce them all as v lol

like "want" is pronounced "vant" , however most ppl after some practice learn the w sound , if thats what u mean

So I take it the "و" letter is traditionally used to pronounce "V" most the time? Because I think it sometimes pronounces "O" as well. This confuses me again because how would I know if I should pronounce "و" as "va/ve/vo" or simply "o"? Like let's say we type Veronica in Persian:

ورونیکا

Is it pronounced "Veronica" or "Verovnica"?

Thanks for the help, by the way. I love the Persian language.

[Aerithia]

It's pronounced "VerOnica", the way the "و" is pronounced depends on when it's used.

It can mean both v and o, but you understand how to pronounce it when you see the word if you get what i mean.

Also, nice to hear that you are interested in the Persian language. It deserves more attention .

[SoroushPersepolisi]

Originally Posted by Kutsuit

So I take it the "?" letter is traditionally used to pronounce "V" most the time? Because I think it sometimes pronounces "O" as well. This confuses me again because how would I know if I should pronounce "?" as "va/ve/vo" or simply "o"? Like let's say we type Veronica in Persian:

???????

Is it pronounced "Veronica" or "Verovnica"?

Thanks for the help, by the way. I love the Persian language.

ooohhh

yes , ? is pronounced as "u" or "o" sometimes
, like the word "???" meaning river is pronounced "roud" , many words actually follow this, it practically has 3 sounds, v, o , and u


there is no main law, u just have to know which one is used where

most foreign words that have "o" are written with ? like ???? (lyonne, the french city) or like veronica as u pointed out

[Koobideh]

How wealthy do you think the top 1% or 2% in Iran are? What do you think their annual incomes are like, and do you think they would be similar to the annual incomes of the top 1% of the US, UK, France, etc?

And how many billionaires do you think there are in Iran? I've noticed there are none listed on Forbes, yet Forbes lists 34 billionaires in Turkey. I guess the size of Turkey's economy is similar to that of Iran's, and I'm guessing their income inequality is probably the same as Iran's too. Do you think Forbes is right that there are no billionaires in Iran, if there are, how many do you think there are, and who do you think they are??

[SoroushPersepolisi]

there are but iran isnt portrayed in forbes and such types of media

there are few types of rich in iran

1) mullahs who do the "bokhor bokhor", so many of them and their chadori wives driving s class amgs,

2) the ones that were rich from the start (parents etc) like the guy that built hotel dariush (though he is out of iran)

3) people with connections (his uncles buddy is an akhund so he buys him a factory lol)

5) and the few who work hard and get money since they deserve it

there are plenty of billionaires due to the corrupt system, many which dont have "income" ratger its what they squeeze out of funda and budgets

[persian]

An estimated $500b-$600b has been lost in Iran during the last 7 years alone. There are a few hundred families (Sepah,basij, akhund and I persoanlly know a number of them) who steal Iran's money, sent their wives and child to stay outside of Iran and have massive investments in banks all over the world. There was a list published a few years ago detailing their wealth and also a book published called "millionaire mullas" whose author was "mysteriously" killed in Russia.
So yes, Iran has at least 10 billionaries that I know of. Khamenei family atleast have $12b, Rafsanjani, Rafighdoust, Vaez Tabasi, Abrishamchi and......you can look for them online.

[Aerithia]

lol

[SoroushPersepolisi]

Originally Posted by persian

An estimated $500b-$600b has been lost in Iran during the last 7 years alone. There are a few hundred families (Sepah,basij, akhund and I persoanlly know a number of them) who steal Iran's money, sent their wives and child to stay outside of Iran and have massive investments in banks all over the world. There was a list published a few years ago detailing their wealth and also a book published called "millionaire mullas" whose author was "mysteriously" killed in Russia.
So yes, Iran has at least 10 billionaries that I know of. Khamenei family atleast have $12b, Rafsanjani, Rafighdoust, Vaez Tabasi, Abrishamchi and......you can look for them online.

if all the money that has been stollen from the people in the past 10 years was correctly used, iran could of been a very different place right now