Name of Iran
Historical debate over the usage of "Persia" or "Iran" to refer to the country / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Persia (name)" redirects here. For other names Persia and other named Persia, see Persia (disambiguation).
In the Western world, Persia (or one of its cognates) was historically the common name used for Iran.[1] On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah officially asked foreign delegates to use the Persian term Iran, the endonym of the country, in formal correspondence. Subsequently, the common adjective for citizens of Iran changed from Persian to Iranian. In 1959, the government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Reza Shah's son, announced that both "Persia" and "Iran" could be used interchangeably, in formal correspondence.[2] However, the issue is still debated (see § Recent debate) among Iranians.[3]