Tajik you re the only party still unable to come into terms with what s on the Safavid page right now We agreed with various contributors over and over on the wording Safavids were not Azeri speaking but Turkic speaking There is no such thing as Azeri speaking cited by either Minorsky or Frye Both say either Azerbaijani Turkish or Azeri Turk So that edit must say Turkic speaking dynasty for all practical purposes as agreed with Ali and many others earlier Ismail was of mixed Azeri Turkic Kurdish and Pontic Greek identity Your race approach is not acceptable There is no such identity as Iranic but Iranian secondly I am not sure if Kurdish contributors will be happy with replacement of the word Kurdish with the word Iranian but it s up to them The claim reasserted original Iranian identity is void of references and baseless Ismail asserted Shiite identity which is modern Iranian identity original Iranian identity was not Shiite but Zoroastrian which was a herecy for Ismail and Safavids