The Romans

[mettle guy]

It is also confusing why supporters of Shah insist on calling themselves “Persians” and not Iranians when it was the Shah himself who chose the name Iran as replacement for Persia.

[Heba E. Husseyn]

Yes that is correct and it’s an interesting point to raise.  That approach of theirs is a gesture of hate toward post revolution Iran.  Just because the country is presently known as the Islamic Republic of Iran, so the supporters of the former Shah prefer to call it Persia.

It needs to be known that supporters of pre-revolution Iran or supporters of the former Shah did not and do not identify themselves as Muslims.  They identify themselves as the descendants of ancient Persians.  They are much closer to the Zoroastrian culture than the Islamic culture.  The son of the Shah, Reza Shah jr, who lives in the USA has named himself Cyrus Reza Pahlavi.   Cyrus was the pagan-Zoroastrian founder of the Achaemenid dynasty in old Persia.

[mettle guy]

I get it.  I didn’t think of this before but now when I think, it adds up and makes sense.