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To: mazda77

>>>”This in light of the outing of the long kept secret the name of the country was changed at the request of Hitler’s people in which Iran is actually translated as Aryan. Iran was an ally of Nazi Germany during WWII.”

Source plz?


6 posted on 02/08/2010 3:38:51 PM PST by odds
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To: odds
I know wiki is not a good source but for a quickie perhaps I'll dig up some more. I first heard of this while stationed in Teheran from 72-74 from some of the locals.

"The name "Persia" until 1935 was the "official" name of Iran in the Western world, but Persian people inside their country since the Sassanid period (226–651 A.D.) have called it "Iran" meaning "the land of Aryans". The Proto-Iranian term for Iran is reconstructed as *Aryānām (the genitive plural of the word *Arya) and the Avestan equivalent is "Airyanem" (as in Airyanem Vaejah). On 21 March 1935, the ruler of the country, Reza Shah Pahlavi, issued a decree asking foreign delegates to use the term Iran in formal correspondence. Some believe he made this decision in order to be closer to Germany, by trying to emphasize the Aryan connection between Hitler's idealistic German Aryan race and the Persian Aryan race, given that "Iran" means "land of Aryans", at a time where the German empire was slowly becoming an unstoppable superpower. Some other believed he changed "Persia" to "Iran" to present a new and modern face of the country in the world." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_naming…

8 posted on 02/08/2010 4:54:17 PM PST by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate - West FL22nd - Dockery for Gov. - JD Hayworth - US Senate)
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