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Michael Hoshang Momeni
The population of Iran is extracted from آیريآ (airya) or آریآ (arya). The word means ”noble” in old Parsi. The name of the region or the country where these noble people lived was called آیریآن (airyan), or آریآن (aryan) .
“On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi asked foreign delegates to use the term Iran, the endonym of the country, in formal correspondence” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Iran ]
“The gentilic ēr- and ary- in ērān and aryān derives from Old Iranian *arya- (Old Persian airya-, Avestan airiia-, etc.), meaning "Aryan", in the sense of "of the Iranians". This term is attested as an ethnic designator in Achaemenid inscriptions and in Zoroastrianism's Avesta tradition, and it seems "very likely" that in Ardashir's inscription ērān still retained this meaning, denoting the people rather than the empire.
Airyan Today:
Iranian nomadic-pastoral people today, it is an image of the past.
Planting rice, northern Iran
Iranian women and her child
Traditional dresses of Iran
Homazan, mother and child, all in one day's work.
Iranian Border guard, a modern Homazan
Iranian Traditional dance and dress
Traditional Iranian dance
City of Tehran, bookstore: She is reading the daily newspaper
President of Iran, Dr. Hassan Rohani
Airyan people of Nuristan speak an ancient Iranian dialect.
A beautiful village girl from Bakhtiari region of Iran.
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