@2×4:
Now thet’z downraht fars-ical. Why…

Ooopsie! … according to Wikipedia (which is sometimes good for links, iff’n nuttin’ else), there’z a lot of them thar Azeri in Fars district, Iran. Hooo-weee! No wonder them Persioidz is so durned nervious:

The Azerbaijani language unifies Azeris and is mutually intelligible with Turkmen and Turkish (including the dialects spoken by the Iraqi Turkmen and by the Qashqai).

“Ossettians”? Thems war Farsicals, pushed into the mountains sometime 1100+…