How large could an Iranian Nation-State realistically be?

With all this nation state debate, how would someone classify India
Not a nation state, maybe a geographical based country with of course some religious and relevant history background? Of course the presence of big minorities in the country undermines the "religion" point and the fact that not of all the Indian subcontinent is owned by them could undermine the "geography" part.

In any case don´t be attached to a definition, analyze each cases separately.
 
All Shia populations in the Iranian plateau comfortably have an Iranian identity, this includes the Azeri Turks. We could expand this to Sunni Persians in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. If you follow their online forums, the Sunni Persians also comfortably identify with Persian history and culture, and are correct in doing so. Until recently, Kurds was just a term refering to Iranic speaking nomads and peasants in the Zagros. So, given an early POD they too could be absorbed into the Iranian nation state as much of their culture is shared with other Iranic peoples.
 
Not a nation state, maybe a geographical based country with of course some religious and relevant history background? Of course the presence of big minorities in the country undermines the "religion" point and the fact that not of all the Indian subcontinent is owned by them could undermine the "geography" part.

In any case don´t be attached to a definition, analyze each cases separately.
India, in my mind, is definitely an interesting country to begin with, with really nothing holding it together
 
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