I don't understand this. What you call bold claims are easily verifiable facts. Demographic and education level statistics are widely available online, choose your source of choice.
I'm pretty sure there are also a lot of people on this site that anecdotally know this from their contact with Iranian diaspora.
I don't understand this. What you call bold claims are easily verifiable facts. Demographic and education level statistics are widely available online, choose your source of choice.
I'm pretty sure there are also a lot of people on this site that anecdotally know this from their contact with Iranian diaspora.
Not the GP nor claiming anything , but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran is what you are asking for.