MaYa D on life

64 years on, and although there is no Joseph Stalin, another strong man of Russia is in Tehran. Back in 1943, Stalin with Roosevelt and Churchill wanted to thwart the threats of Nazi Germany and its allies (متحدین). Back then Iran's oil was of huge importance, as was its strategic position next to Russia and the biggest part of the British empire in India. The thorn in the side was the then Shah, Reza Pahlavi, who resented the European influence in his country, and was rumoured to have sympathy for Aryan Germans. Iran means the land of the Aryans in Persian after all, and is the name that its natives have always used for it.