From here, one group migrated towards India, and the other migrated towards Iran (a name derived from Aryan). The group that migrated towards India married local women, and their children composed the ...

Why has Andrew Sullivan started referring to Iran as Persia and Iranians as Persians? Is this some left-over English tic that has suddenly resurfaced, or is it supposed to be some kind of ...

the old language of Persia/Iran, and ‘Indo Aryan’ i.e. Sanskritic are very close akin indeed. My mother is a Parsi, so I was fascinated to see that the Aryans may well have been Zoroastrians.