Best Way/Country to form persia?

[The Shadow Rose]

Just wondering. Ive tried it with ajam but they have to many enemies to do easily and korastan is good cause it has alot of allies and cores to reclaim but overall i have yet to find a way to do it quickly and easily since you cant do it with timurids anymore. And starting with anyone besides qara makes it really hard to hit mamluks before the ottomans since qq is suprisingly strong and usually has alot of allies. I can never win a war against them till the mamluks hit them and by then its to late to block off the ottomans. Playing as qq is annoying cause of the goverment switch though.

[SirTalkALot]

I just had a very successful QQ game. I switched to Sunni right off the bat and that helped out my unrest and helped me ally the Ottomans. I later went back to Shia after I formed Persia and having Religious ideas (you also get events that will help you switch back). I dont remember having to do anything with my government to form Persia.

[Psychotic Fury]

Im playing as Ajam atm. I went straight for ardalan (i think thats the one) and gilan i think it was. The guy in the middle at the bottom of the lake where u start by. I waited till the tims lost their vassals which still happens fast, before attacking them. I have mainly expanded into iraq and arabia. It pissed off the ottos for about 50 years. Was a tense time waitin to see if theyd attack. They never did.

I allied with uzbek and nogai straight away. Then lithuania when i got big enough. Keep an eye on arabia, easy vassals there and you can do reconquest wars if you get a vassal whos been attacked like i did (haasa).

Dont worry if qq or the guy below you vassal (where iraq is), i had them at 70+ agressive expansion. Same with the sistan etc. They dont seem to care too much about their neighbours lol. Good thing there are alot of religions in your area.

(Btw convert to shia at some stage so you can get the persian events).

Edit. I think they was i formed persia was i took the prov below the inland lake you need. Then the rest off the tims in 1 war when they had their vassals break.

Forming persia reforms the goverment so you wont need to after you take it. My main problem was the alliancws between trans/sistan/fars/afghans. Had to keep waitin for uzbek to be able to join the wars for extra help. Nogai is essentially worthless after awhile. Russia will attack them. And they kept going to afraid of me so wouldnt join my wars. I just kept them inase ottos attacked till i could ally lithuania.