`   ::Ali, again, the article Iranian peoples to which the word Iranian was linked to in prior edit, clearly says in introduction: ``The Iranian peoples are a collection of ethnic groups defined by their usage of Iranian languages and their descent from ancient Iranian peoples.``. Azerbaijanis are not defined by their usage of Iranian languages in first place, and actually descend from a number of various peoples including Iranian, Turkic and Caucasus backgrounds.  ::Your insistence on Savory as a primary source borders WP:WEIGHT, after all, we also have another authority Richard Frye, using expression ``Azeri Turks``. There are another dozen references linking Safavids to Turks as well, so let's not get back to ever continuing and resultless discussion. The fact is Safavids were of Azerbaijani and Kurdish background, let's live with it and move on without any further claims. ::Finally, Ali, there is a distinct difference between a reality, when absolute majority of what's known as ethnic Azerbaijanis speak Turkic language and consider themselves a unique identity within Iran, Turkey or elsewhere, and in fact, inside Iran, call themselves Turks, and an abstraction trying to trace any line that would link Azeris ethnically to Iranians and unlink them from Turks or vice versa. Ultimate choice between the reality and desired abstraction defines and impacts the neutrality or lack thereof.  ::No one denies that many Azerbaijanis live in Iran and consider it their homeland, and are Iranians by nationality/citizenship. It does not mean we should claim them ``ethnic Iranian peoples`` in Wikipedia or reclaim the ethnicity of Safavids based on one person from 3-4 centuries earlier. In modern scholarship that's called revisionism. After all, all humans descended either from ape or from Adam and Eve, let's now dispute which one it was. Thanks.  `