Iranian-Canadian, interested in history, linguistics, poetry, memes, and politics.
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Keyumars Kashani retweeted
Since we've already had two spontaneous threads on Zoroastrian museums of Yazd, I suppose I can't avoid mentioning Kerman's anthropological museum, their counterpart. I should note that I visited it 3 years ago, and these photos are from back then.
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Rowan Moore wrote a piece, but I still think there’s some great stories out there
observer.co.uk/culture/archi…
The historian Mahmoud Mahmoud originally went by the name Mahmoud Pahlavi, but when Reza Shah picked Pahlavi as his own last name, Mahmoud was forced to change his, and decided to repeat his first name instead. He wrote an 8 volume history of British Iranian political relations.
I'm not sure if the question is being asked in jest or seriously but -
Last names are a fairly new concept for Iranians. Before people had a name and then usually a title based on where they came from, their tribe, or rank.
So when Reza Shah (who later overthrew the Qajars and started his own dynasty) was born, he was known as Reza Savadkoohi (Reza from Savadkooh, an area in Mazandaran).
When he first entered the military he became known as Reza Maxim (he was trained on a maxim gun, which was a big deal then).
As he went up in the ranks he was Reza Khan and Reza Mirpanj (names of different ranks).
Finally after the coup and all the drama and events that happened, when he decided to found a new dynasty, he chose the name "Pahlavi" based on the name of the ancient script (undoubtedly as a part of his larger ideological project of emphasizing Iran's pre-Islamic heritage).
And then early in his rule as a part of modernization efforts he made in mandatory for all Iranians to get last names, so everyone had to make up something.
And the race of goldsmiths became Talakoubnejads.
Keyumars Kashani retweeted
بازتولید عادلانه عقل احتیاج داریم که متاسفانه انگار معدنش رو سیل گرفته و کارخونه‌اش ورشکست شده…
Let's say they actually believe this. What would they realistically have to do to make the IR give up in 3 days? Nuke Tehran and land half a million troops in Abadan?
"Some US planners are convinced that an intensive three-day campaign could cause enough economic damage to change the Iranian position."
You would think they'd have stopped making these kinds of predictions eight months into what was supposed to be a four-or-five-week war nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/po…
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توصیهٔ سریال: «جادوگرِ خِیمه»، 天幕のジャードゥーガル، دربارهٔ دختری ایرانی به‌نام ستاره که در حملهٔ تولوی به طوس اسیر مغولان می‌شود. با شرکت زنان معروف دربار مغول، «اصول اقلیدس»، خواجه نصیرالدین طوسی، اگتای قاآن، و رهج الغار.⬇️
Keyumars Kashani retweeted
I’d like to thank my Uzbek brothers for making Rubio praise the most quintessentially Persianate city just a week after his Athens diatribe against the Persians.
The funniest part of this is that the word "orange" itself (as well as the Portugese laranja) came from the Persian نارنگ.
Everyone commenting on their clothes but that's Old Persian! Not high enough res to read, but it seems to be jibberish. Imagine they had copied naqsh-e rostam for this.
New look at Timothée Chalamet and Anya Taylor-Joy in ‘DUNE: PART THREE’.
(empireonline.com/movies/news…)
These accounts are always funny because if they actually believed in Republican administration, they'd live in Mississippi or West Virginia instead of *checks notes*... Europe.
قابل توجه هموطنانمان در امریکا.
در کمپین
"من به جمهوری خواهان رای میدهم"
شرکت کنید و تلاش کنید به نفع جمهوری خواهان انتخابات انجام شود.
یادمان باشد پیروزی جمهوری خواهان نجات ایران است.
🇺🇸✌️🇮🇷
#KingRezaPahlaviForIran
#I_Vote_Republican
I'm going to go one hot step further. Persian, as an ethnic non-linguistic identity, is meaningless. People whose first language is Persian from Gorgan and Dezful don't have more exclusive features in common with each other than they do with their non-Persian speaking neighbours.
Nobody in Iran identified themselves as Parsi 20 years ago. It's purely for the Westernized gaze at this point. فارس is the province and فارسی is the language. Not everyone in Fars even speaks Persian as a first language.
