{"id":1676,"date":"2022-10-12T16:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T14:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:40:55","slug":"iran-the-land-of-the-aryans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.israelreport.org\/en\/iran-the-land-of-the-aryans\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran – the land of the Aryans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran \u2013 the land of the Aryans<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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The Muslim nation of Iran and Hitler\u2019s Third Reich had a close relationship during World War II. Iran\u2019s leader Reza Shah saw his people as pure-blooded Aryans just like the Germans<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 1935, Reza Shah proclaimed to the League of Nations that the country of Persia would henceforth be called Iran \u2013 the home of the Aryans. Photo: Unknown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I<\/span>n 1935, Reza Shah proclaimed to the League of Nations that the country of Persia would henceforth be called Iran \u2013 referring to the country\u2019s ancient roots and the Sanskrit phrase Airyanem Vaejah \u2013 Home of the Aryans.
\nGermany recognized the Iranians\u2019 racial purity, and according to the Nuremberg Laws, Iranians were to be considered as Aryan as any full-blooded German.
\nThe swastika\u2014the emblem of the Third Reich\u2014had been a religious symbol of Zoroastrianism in Persia for millennia. The book Night of the Assassins (June 2020) describes how Reza Shah at the end of 1943 helped Hitler plan the assassinations of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin when they met in Tehran. The book describes how the plan was thwarted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Indo-European culture<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Hitler often talked about Aryans as tall, athletic and blonde, but the term \u201cAryan\u201d from the beginning was primarily a linguistic designation for a prehistoric Indo-European culture that lived in Central Asia 3,500 years ago.
\nIn the 19th century, \u201cAryan\u201d went from describing a specific prehistoric culture to designating all Indo-Europeans. 19th century racist scientists believed that prehistoric Aryans were the ancestors of white Europeans. The Indian and European languages formed one gigantic language family \u2013 the Aryan or Indo-European language group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Celebration time for neo-Nazis<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The connection between Nazism and Iran has also been made clear in recent times. When Iran\u2019s national football team met Angola in East German Leipzig on June 26, 2006 or played against Mexico in Nuremberg on June 11 of the same year, it was a moment of celebration for Germany\u2019s neo-Nazis.
\nThe reason was that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the then president of Iran who denied the Holocaust and wanted to wipe Israel off the map, had become an idol for Germany\u2019s barely 40,000 organized right-wing extremists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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