Eric Lurio’s Notes on the Iran/Persia Conflict: A Travelogue — Part One: “Tourist” is not a Dirty W

Few countries are as historically important as Persia. Not Iran, Persia. True, the area was to some extent called “Aryan” or “Iran” on and off for millennia for the last two and a half thousand years, it’s been Persia, and that’s what most of the people consider themselves, Persian.