How Iran got its name
In fact, do you know how the nation of Iran got its name?
For thousands of years, the country we now know as Iran was known as Persia.
But in 1935, the shah of Iran, the father of the man deposed in 1979, was a Nazi sympathizer. He hated the Jews. So he decided to show his true stripes by renaming his country Iran, which literally means “land of the Aryans.”
Later, that same shah welcomed Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husseini, the exiled grand mufti of Jerusalem, into the country. The mufti was on the run because of his pro-Nazi work and his efforts in attempting to bring the Jewish Holocaust to the Middle East. Al-Husseini would later go on to inspire and tutor Yasser Arafat in the art of Jew-killing. Arafat referred to al-Husseini as “uncle.”
The Nazi shah may have received good notices from Berlin, but London was none too thrilled with his pro-Nazi position. And, unfortunately for him and fortunately for the rest of the world, Hitler did not conquer the world. The shah was deposed by the British and replaced with his son.
But the name “Iran” stuck. And it illustrates the visceral, underlying anti-Semitism that has shown itself throughout history in the Islamic world.
Today, we have Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president. He sees visions of the coming “mahdi” – the Islamic savior who will wrest control of the world from the infidels. He threatens Israel with destruction. He denies the Holocaust. He threatens the West. He builds nuclear bombs.
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