Abbas Amanat

This is son of Reza Shah.

And technically, what is Shah?

Well, Shah is an old term in Persian that comes from a pre-Islamic Persian of ancient times.

is the head of the executive power, according to the Constitution of 1906.

But the shah is a very old term.

Yeah, it actually is a term peculiar to Iran.

I've written about it somewhere.

But because the term, the Western word in the ancient times has been rex.

for royalty and the king.

In the Eastern world, in India, is Raj.

It's the same origin, the same root.

Iran never shared that.

They had the idea of... Because Rex and Raj, I don't want to get into too much of an etymology, but this is an interesting one.

Rex and Raj both means the one that opens the road for...

basically enforcer of religion, okay?

Enforcer of the right religion.

Because Rex and Raj both have the, of the etymological origin of right, you see?

And right means the right religion.

Yeah, because that was actually...

The change that came about, I don't want to go too much into it, but it was called, as I pointed out before, the guarded domains of Iran.