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In 1935, Rezā Shāh issued a decree asking foreign delegates to use the term homeland in formal correspondence, in accordance with the fact that “Persia” was a term used by Western peoples for the country called “homeland” in Persian.
Monireh Taslimi, born Monir Akhundnia in 1926 in Bandar Anzali (then known as Bandar Pahlavi), …