The name of Iran derives immediately from Middle Persian Ērān, Pahlavi ʼyrʼn, first attested in the inscription that accompanies the investiture relief of Ardashir I at Naqsh-e Rustam.[1] In this inscription, the king’s Middle Persian appellation is ardašīr šāhān šāh ērān while in the Parthian language inscription that accompanies the Middle Persian one the king is titled ardašīr šāhān šāh aryān (Pahlavi: … ʼryʼn).

The gentilic ēr- and ary- in ērān/aryān derives from Old Iranian *arya-[1] (Old Persian ariya-, Avestan airiia-, etc.), meaning "Aryan,"[1] in the sense of "of the Iranians."[1][2] This term is attested as an ethnic designator in Achaemenid inscriptions and in Zoroastrianism’s Avesta tradition,[3][n 1] and it seems "very likely"[1] that in Ardashir’s inscription ērān still retained this meaning, denoting the people rather than the empire.

Notwithstanding this inscriptional use of ērān to refer to…

I tend to think of it as Twitters broke the Ayatollahs and the media. The media used their being locked up in hotels, as a good excuse to turn a blind eye to the low turnout and mass abstention, that was taking place in all these so called "self-selections" by the alien regime.

In the past they had reported it, but this year the Ayatollahs locked them up. It all amounted to the birth of the instant Citizen Journal in Iran. Remember that the angst in Iran, had already made Iranians the second largest blogging community in the world. Twitter penetration was instant, together with YouTube.

And the media still ignores Iran, but listens and spreads the Ayatollahs’ propaGANDa. But who reads AP, BBC, Reuters any more?
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"Tehran largely banned international and Iranian media from freely covering the massive wave of protests over alleged fraud in the re-election of…