You entertain me for decades with movies of the Battle of Thermopylae between 300 waxed Chip-n-Dale dancers and the massive army of circus freaks with their body piercings and jeweler.
Now I hear and watch of talk that the Circus freaks went snowflake and want to go back to be called Persians and want to be rescued from persons who say they are them, but now you tell me they are just Netherland people.
I didn’t say you need to change what you call them.
I said that the request to call it Iran has
1. Historical precedence far predating Islam leave athe Islamic republic
2. Was done under the Shah.
Changing names of history is not the case here, it’s external names(exonyms) vs what the country calls itself (endonym).
For example, in Latin America, the USA is estados unis and for American is estadounidense.
If tomorrow you say “guys, in Spanish please call us united states and US Americans” it isn’t changing name of history just you asking to be called a certain way
This has a reason - there are lots of Iranian ethnicities like Persians, Kurds, Mazdanis, etc and non iranian ethnicities in iran like Azeris, Armenians and Arabs. So the rulers of iran prefer to use tha4t generic term rather than that of the largest (but still only around 40%) ethnicity- the Persians.
Like the Netherlands has many provinces, two 9f which are north and south Holland. They don’t want the entire country to be called by a subset.
It would be like calling the entire USA as California.