Desert level music is nice, real middle eastern music is nice as well. You should know about “light in babylon” they are great and somewhere in between those two.

Ironically, while Persian is stereotyped as “luxury arabic” Iranian is stereotyped as “evil arabic”.

Honestly so do I but more like culturally rich rather than literally. Islam would be Hella dim if it wasn’t for Persian influences, and I say this as a non Persian.

I knew a girl in college (was pursuing a girl in college) who said she was Persian. When I was confused, she explained that her family came from Iran but, the political climate being what it was in the late 1980’s, she found it safer to say she was Persian.