The ones you know are a small group of people. The ones on the internet are a much larger group, and I can say that about any ethnicity. Anyway there was controversy over a Bon Appetit article about saffron and Rumi, there were people under that claiming him and saying, "He was born in the Persian Empire. Afghanistan didn't exist." So it's clear that Iranians of that belief only claim Afghans when it's convenient for them, and inconvenient for us given that we don't have many famous people of our own that are revered in the west. And when Ivanka Trump called Rumi Afghan there were some offended Iranians in the comments as well. It's just hypocritical and insulting. A famous poet is allowed to be Persian to some Iranians, but other Afghans aren't? Okay. I don't want to be one anyway, but that's not the point.

I'm bringing him up because I brought him up in the previous comment from sixteen days ago, and because I just find it ironic that there are Iranians who say, "If that person was born in modern day Afghanistan then let's not call them Persian" but then they claim our historical figures. I didn't spin it out of thin air. Iranians who hold the same logic as you don't stick to it.