The typology of Yiddish and the name Ashkenaz cannot serve as arguments to support the theory put forward by Das et al. (2016) (Localizing Ashkenazic Jews to primeval villages in the ancient Iranian lands of Ashkenaz. Genome Biol Evol 8:1132-1149.) that the origin of Ashkenazic Jews can be located in ancient Iran. Yiddish is a Germanic, not a Slavic language. The history of the use of the term ...

A combination of solid-phase-extraction (SPE) and reversed-phase preparative high-performance liquid chromatography (prep-HPLC) of the methanolic extract of the aerial parts of Artemisia splendens (common name: “Asia Minor Wormwood”), an endemic Iranian species, afforded Zand E-melilotosides (1 and 2), Zand E-4-methoxy-melilotosides (3 and 4), and a new dimer, bis-ortho-Z-melilotoside (5, named...

The emergence and rapid proliferation of the predominantly anti-regime Farsi satellite TV channels (FSTCs) their productions since early 1990s have not only transformed Iranian mediascape, but also challenged state’s definition Iranianness. Among new generations these free-to-air transnational channels, is MANOTO, a London-based television network which became familiar name among Iranians 2010 ...

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despite the few data about mardâs in shâhnâme, the very high attention of scholars to him and his name is indebted to the importance of his son, zahhâk, in iranian mythology. the lack of any information about this personality in avesta, ambiguity of written forms of his name in pahlavi script in middle persian texts, multiplicity of the recorded forms in islamic texts and also the similarity of...

This research analyses the political Islamic movement in East of Kurdistan between 1979-2001. In 1979, after Iranian Nations revolution's success, a number religious movements and organizations formed. A part these was working to establish local Kurdish-Islamic authority. On other hand, there were with Ayatollah Khomeini newly installed regime Tehran, others identifying themselves under umbrell...