Defining Iran: Politics of Resistance
Dr Shabnam J Holliday
According to Gherado Gnoli (1989: 175, 179, 183) and Josef Wiesehofer (2001 : xi), the political concept of Iran was said to have derived from the Sasanian period (AD 205 - 651) and their use of the term Iranshahr, which literally meansĀ ...