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Quick FYI: Iran is not part of the Arabic world and their language is unrelated. An Iranian friend once told me he would rather learn French than Arabic, as it would be easier for him.
The Iranians have been at odds with their Arabic neighbors for a long time and have much closer links with the people of Afghanistan, for instance. Not that that would be enlightening to most people but I thought I would mention it because many people lump Iran together with "the Arabs" since it is still part of the Middle East.
They never said it was Arabic or related to Arabic. They said Farsi, which it is, and Arabic scripts, which Farsi uses.
They're completely different language families, but they use the Arabic alphabet. Kinda like how Finnic, Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages all use the roman alphabet though being unrelated to each other.
FYI: they never said Arabic and Persian are related besides the alphabet
Yes, though I stated 'arabic script and alphabet' as that's the text style used. There are some different letters used but it's based in the same alphabet system. Like how most European languages are based in the Roman alphabet. The English wouldn't consider their language 'Roman'.
That's cool. I'm not saying you did, just wanted to point out that there's a big difference besides the letters. I think FWIW might have worked better for that than the FYI I used. Hope that clears up any confusion.