https://twitter.com/anar_emoji/status/993982114205925376 https://twitter.com/lili_goli/status/1304109737340997633
not trying to bump myself but definitely trying to make sure that everyone understands Iranian "Aryanism" as a specific historical phenomenon
in brief: https://twitter.com/LAZARINEEEE/status/1304110108725710849
Although there is a more complex dynamic at work here that has to do with 19th-c Iranian intellectuals (many of them non-Persian, funnily enough) torquing European racialism to fit their own nationalist aims specifically in opposition to rising Arab nationalism
And beyond the long history of Orientalist representations of Iranians in European culture, as well as imperialist contests between British and Russian Empires (Great Game) in the region...
the poaching of Iranian resources and the de facto colonization of Abadan in the 20th century, with its whites-only barracks and raced labor hierarchy, totally implode any fantasy of shared "indo-european" community.
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