Persia is the old name of which Islamic country?
A. Iraq
B. Iran
C. Turkey
D. Lebanon
Answer
Correct Answer: B. Iran
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In the Western world, Persia (or one of its cognates) was historically the common name for Iran. On the Nowruz of 1935, Reza Shah asked foreign delegates to use the Persian term Iran (meaning the land of Aryans in Persian), the endonym of the country, informal correspondence.