Iran Once Great Many Americans today ignorantly mistake Iran to be an Arab country. Such is false and untrue. Iran A.K.A. Persia is a country over 6,000 years old where the people are of "Aryan" (Indo-European) ethnicity and speak Persian (Pārsī) and "NOT" Arabic. On March 21st 1935 (Persian New Year) "Rezā Pahlavi" who founded the "Pahlavi" dynasty of Persia asked foreign delegates to use the term "Iran" (Ērān) instead of "Persia". Reason being that even since the "Achaemenid" era (550 BC) when "Cyrus The Great" ruled "Iran" has "ALWAYS" been the internal name for Persia. Iran consists of many Aryan ethnicities today; vast majority being Persian and others Median & Parthian. The reason "Iran" was called "Persia" is because that the first Iranian (Aryan) tribe the "Greeks" went to war with were the "Persians". From there the Greek historians described the country as "Perse" which in Latin eventually took the form of "Persia". Same reason why in "Persia A.K.A. Iran" they call the Greeks "Ionians" (Ūnāniān) & Greece "Ionia" (Ūnān). The first Greek tribe the Persians (Iranians) went to war with were the "Ionians". However the internal name for "Persia" is and has for millenniums been "Iran" (Ērān) which originates from the Persian words "ĀRIĀ-NĀM" which means "Land of Aryans". Many may mistake the Aryan ethnicity to be "Blonde Hair & Blue Eyes". Such knowledge is false and misinterpreted however; "Iranians A.K.A. Persians" are white and over 50% of them "DO" have bright coloured hair as well as green or blue eyes. 1979 - "R. Pahlavi" (Rezā Shāh Pahlavi) was overthrown and with him 2,500 years of continuous Persian monarchy ended. The current regime in Persia is a "Theocratic Dictatorship" which has lead the "Iranians A.K.A. Persians" to have extreme "Anti-Islamic" views. IRAN (Persia) - The birthplace of Civilization / Human Rights / Wine / Zoroastrianism (First Monotheistic Religion) / Poetry & many more. FREE IRAN!