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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    2 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