“Reza found the term “Persia” embarrassing, seeing as it smacked of water pipes and flying carpets and had it replaced with “Iran,” which refers to the country’s Aryan heritage. The Aryans were little more than a despairing mob of hungry Siberians who settled in what is now Iran a very long time ago.” – Tirdad Zolghadr, A Little Less Conversation” IranAryans Book:Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations Source: Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations