https://x.com/MahyarTousi/status/1832017472943174081

Endless quote tweets and responses just mindlessly agreeing. Quite baffling.

  • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    For one, they like to call themselves persian even though thats kitsch at best and supremacist at worst.

    There are so many ethnic/ racial groups within Iran; azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Persians, balochis, etc. Persian is 50% roughly depending on your source. Not only that but calling Iran persia, is a colonial term.

    That's why they changed the name themselves to Iran, because they're the land of the Ayranian people.

    Someone should tell them to do a test at least.

    • CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      The only reasonable explanation I have for this phenomenom is that these people are morons, believe that calling themselves Persian makes them western compliant, and believe it was the Ayatollah who 'changed the country's name'.

      • GlueBear [they/them, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        This terminology prevailed until 1935, when, during an international gathering for Nowruz, the Iranian king Reza Shah Pahlavi officially requested that foreign delegates begin using the endonym "Iran" in formal correspondence.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Iran

        It wasn't the Ayatollah, this happened long before the rise of the IRI or the revolution