Talk:Omid Kordestani

citizenship
He has also the Iranian citizenship since he is Iranian since his birth. It is not possible to renounce the Iranian citizenship. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:CB:DBFB:EF00:6839:D53F:185F:808E (talk) 05:35, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Edit request from Gingerfranke, 2 May 2011
1. Please change 'spouse' from Bita Daryabari (1991–2009) to his new spouse: "Gisel Kordestani (Maiden: Hiscock) 2010-present"

2. Please change Residence	Atherton, California 15 Central Park West, New York City - remove the exact residence address. "15 Central Park West" and correct to Atherton & San Francisco, California and New York City, New York.

3. Please change 'Net Worth' - Please remove Net Worth all together.

Gingerfranke (talk) 16:00, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. If you have a reliable source to verify these, please change the "yes" in the edit request above to "no" and provide that source here. Also, why should the net worth be removed when it is sourced? Qwyrxian (talk) 02:12, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I could see the article subject wanting privacy regarding their residential address. I would be OK with removing the '15 Central Park West' and the 'Atherton, California.' We actually don't know for sure he lives at either place. The NY press clipping only shows that he bought that property in 2008, not who lives there, or whether he still lives there. The link to what is said to be his official page on Google does not mention his name. I wonder if he still works there. EdJohnston (talk) 04:34, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Wrong Information?!
http://www.google.co.uk/corporate/execs.html#omid this link doesn't exist and there isn't omid in http://www.google.com/about/company/execs.html#omid this link — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.73.198.130 (talk) 15:15, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

I really don't get it, Omid Kordestani is Kurd so why wikipedia insists that he is persian. Not everybody who was born in Tehran is persian and not everybody speaks persian is persian. This man is Kurdish so it would be appropriate to tell the truth and have some respect to the Kurdish youths around the world who look at Omid Kordestani as Kurdish role model and proud of him. The englishmen never claim that Sean Connery, James Watt, Tom Jones or James Cook etc...are englishmen and they say they are Scottish or Welsh and they don't even try to deny that because they are confident with themselves and have respect for other nations within UK and they are proud of these people and their identity. It is not fair to deny successful Kurds their kurdish identity and make them arabs or turks or persians depending on where they born and languages they speak. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bergman Gotland (talk • contribs) 09:30, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
 * See Talk:Omid Kordestani/Archive 1 for lengthy discussions that establish he was born in Tehran not Kurdistan, and he is not Kurdish. EdJohnston (talk) 15:02, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

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I was born in Tehran too, but I am ethnically Kurdish. My neighbours in Tehran were Azeris, Lurs, Baloochis, Mazandaranis & some were persian. Tehran is the capital and people move to the capital for work, since far out provinces are often impoverished. Iran has historically always been called Iran inside the country/empire, but by outsiders called the "Persian empire" (due to the Greeks). This is very unfortunate, since persians are one out of many ethnic groups in the country. Actually the current supreme leader & last dynasty (Pahlavi) are/were Azeris, the dynasty before that (Qajar) where Turkmen, the one before that (Zand) where Laks/Kurds etc. It has historically been a land of many ethnicities (Iran = land of Aryans, in which persians are one out of many). Since Reza Shah Iran was made into a nation-state based on a artificially constructed "Iranian ethnicity" with the language of persian (which previously used to be a lingua franca used by people in power, businessmen, central courts & poets/writers. But largely unknown by most of the population). All this has made outsiders confuse the very different notions of "Iranian" and "Persian", which are very different things for Iranians. The discussion you refer to claim that many in Tehran & Mashhad have the last name of "Kordestani" but are persians since they are from Tehran & Mashhad. Regarding Tehran, I made it clear it is WRONG to assume everybody are persians (ethnically) since a HUGE part of Tehrans population are from other parts of Iran. Regarding Mashhad. During the Safavid era many rebellious kurdish tribes from around Urmiye were deported to the Khorasan region of Iran, which is where Mashhad is located. In this region there are today around 0.5-1 million Kurds living, and they still speak kurdish despite their deportation back in the 1600's. Read more about them on here: Kurds of Khorasan. I do not know the ethnicity of Omid Kordestani, despite what his last name suggests. But the arguments provided for him being "persian" are completely invalid and show extremely poor understanding of Iran demographically, historically & politically. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:1D5F:FB98:35EF:8693:BDFC:AC (talk) 01:53, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

He wasn't even born in Tehran. He is a migrant from Tehran, but he was born in the Kurdish town of Piranshahr in Iran's Kurdish region. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A210:2483:C380:B97F:7D4B:9029:9CE6 (talk) 19:46, 17 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Came here to see if there was any mention of why it reads "is an Iranian-born Kurdish origin", which isn't even gramatically sound. The discussion in linked above is inconclusive. Kurdish is his mother tongue. He can't have Kurdish citizenship, because Kurdistan isn't recognized as a country execept in Northern Iraq. Bangabandhu (talk) 16:54, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

place of birth
Omid Kordestani was born in Tehran. 

--Jones90a (talk) 21:08, 31 October 2015 (UTC)


 * As I noted on my talk page, you will need to verify your identity via WP:OTRS (see Contact us - Subjects for instructions). Note that the Twitter account you linked to above is not a verified Twitter account and cannot be used as a source for anything on Wikipedia.-- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 19:35, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

He was not born in Tehran, but in Piranshahr, Kurdistan province of Iran. Omid Kordestani, as his last name implies, is an ethnic Kurd from the Kurdish region of Iran. He is a migrant from Tehran to California, but he was not BORN in Tehran (there is a difference between place of birth and place where he migrated from).

Most sources for his place of birth being Tehran either don't work, or actually state that he is a migrant from Tehran, not born in Tehran!

Here is a reliable source where his place of birth is actually stated as Piranshahr:

https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1268208801.html

2A02:A210:2483:C380:B97F:7D4B:9029:9CE6 (talk) 19:45, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

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Kurdish
change ((Kurdish)) to ((Kurds|Kurdish))


 * ✅ –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 16:02, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 May 2019
Change any mention of him being Kurdish. He's not Kurdish, there is literally zero mentions of him being Kurdish online. Someone is hijacking this page for the purpose of trying to promote Kurdistan. It's pointless and just incorrect. He's Iranian. 146.115.7.8 (talk) 03:24, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done – Þjarkur (talk) 12:56, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Are you saying that being Iranian prevents a person from being Kurdish...? There is no Iranian ethnicity, Iran has people of many different ethnicities like Persians, Kurds, Azeris, Lurs etc etc. 93.163.144.110 (talk) 03:14, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Surname
Is this his real surname or a recent alias? I guess it's actually quite strange to receive in a region a surname named after that same region. As far as I know there regional or town surnames in Iran are usually quite recent and begotten after a migration. --Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii (talk) 23:25, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

I think such last names are not unusual in Iran. I myself have friends with last names such as Yazdi, Kermani and Lorestani, names from the regions their families originate from (although they all grew up in Tehran). 93.163.144.110 (talk) 03:19, 15 October 2020 (UTC)