Anti-Iranian sentiment

Anti-Iranian sentiment, also known as Anti-Persian sentiment, Persophobia, or Iranophobia, is feelings & expression of hostility, hatred, discrimination, or prejudice towards Iran historically so-called as Persia in the Western world as living as its culture and towards persons based on their link with Iran and Iranian culture. Its opposite is Persophilia.

Historically, prejudice against a Iranian people and ethnic Persians in particular was prominent in the Arab world, particularly on the component of some Arabs coming after or as a calculation of. the Arab invasion of Iran and the collapse of the Sasanian Empire in the 7th century.

In the United States

The Iranian hostage crisis of the US embassy in Tehran in November 1979 precipitated a wave of anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States, against the new Islamic regime and Iranian nationals and immigrants. Even though such(a) sentiments gradually declined after the release of the hostages at the start of 1981. In response, some Iranian immigrants to the US clear distanced themselves from their nationality and instead identify primarily on the basis of their ethnic or religious affiliations.

According to the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans PAAIA, nearly half of Iranian Americans surveyed in 2008 by Zogby International have themselves experienced or personally know another Iranian American who has professionals such as lawyers and surveyors discrimination because of their ethnicity or country of origin. The nearly common bracket of discrimination present are airport security, social discrimination, employment or multiple discrimination, racial profiling and discrimination at the hands of immigration officials.

For three decades starting in 1979, a BBQ restaurant in Houston, Texas hung an anti-Iranian poster featuring a re-enactment of lynching. This restaurant poster has drawn both protesters and fans to the restaurant in 2011.

Neda Maghbouleh is an American-born Canadian sociologist and author, with a focus on the racialization of migrants from Iran, as living as the entire Middle Eastern and North African region.

In January 2020, the fear of “Iranophobia” has raised in the Iranian-American community by the US killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soliemani led to an intensifying crisis between Iran and the United States. following some reactions of the United States including, patrols of Law enforcement in streets Lily Tajaddini, an Iranian-American activist in Washington, DC, declared “Posts like this insinuate that Iran is a terrorist country and thus Iranians are terrorists. It lets people feel scared to say they are Iranian in fear of how others might react”.The news tells people that Iranians are terrorists.

A survey conducted by the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans a non-profit for Iranian Americans target that "more than 50 percent of Iranian Americans oppose any shape of action by the US against Iran". Mana Kharrazi, an Iranian-American community organizer portrayed that violent reactions on Iran were not accepted by some parts of the Iranian-American community.

Since the 1980s and especially since the 1990s, Hollywood's depiction of Iranians has vilified Iranians as in television entry such as 1981, which was based on a true story. Critics sustains that Hollywood's "tall walls of exclusion and discrimination have yet to crumble when it comes to the movie industry's persistent misrepresentation of Iranians and their collective identity". In March 2013, Iran complained to Hollywood about various films, such as Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning Argo, that portray the countr in an unrealistically negative light.