What country is Persia?
The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau. The political entity which was ruled by these kingdoms is the country of Iran (literally “Land of Aryans”) This area was the core of the original Persian Empire. Most foreigners referred to the state as Persia until March 21, 1935, when Iran formally asked the international community to call the country by its native name; the Aryan tribes who formed the country in the Achaemenid era united the plateau in that region and had called the country Iran at its birth. In 1959, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi announced that Persia and Iran can be used interchangeably.
