The photo caption for the Aug. 22 article "Khomeini wanted anti-U.S. mantra dropped" identifies Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini as "Iran's founder." Now I know the current Iranian government would like everyone to believe that Iran began in 1979. But most of us know that it has a rich history dating back 2,500 years and that the name Iran was actually introduced by Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi Dynasty, in the late 1920s.
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