Download or read book Iran and the Challenge of Diversity written by Ailreza Asgharzadeh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interrogates the racist construction of Aria and Aryanism in an Iranian context, arguing that these concepts gave the Indo-European speaking Persian ethnic group an advantage over Iran's non-Persian nationalities and communities.