persia changed name to iran because.. nazis?

[waitwutt]

http://www.iranchamber.com/geography...ecame_iran.php

"This would not only signal a new beginning and bring home to the world the new era in Iranian history, but would also signify the Aryan race of its population, as "Iran" is a cognate of "Aryan" and derived from it. "

showed this to some people at work. they seemed to think it was interesting. figured I would put it here and see if a discussion of old politics would take place instead of new politics.

[madethisfor1post]

That and the name of the country was Iran in their native tongue. But neat factoid none the less.