Wow. What an amazing interview! The perspective, historical context, and objective analysis, especially over the last 1400 years, were just great to listen to.

This is a comment on the guest, not on the host nor on the Iranian people and their culture. In the 6th minute - he made a comment everything he liked about India had come from Iran.That's a rather superficial understanding of whatever he liked about Medieval India. India has history preceding the Turkish conquest in the 1190. Turks, who looked up to Iranian culture and language, in their rule over Norh India imposed Persian as the language of administration, and then followed some cultural influence. But in India those inputs were moulded and modified beyond recognition. North Indian Classical music bear very little resemblance to Persian Classical music. Food - biryani, pulau, etc resemble very little their Persian counterpart. Plus India always continued with the deep culture that had developed in the First Millenium B C or First Millenium A D. Only a portion of Indian culture during the medieval period got influenced , and that also under Royal tutelage. Very shallow observation from a tenured professor.

I enjoyed this conversation. Am a Chinese but always interested in history of other races. Thanks.

Thank you for shedding some light of truth on Iran

The invasion of Iran by the muslim arabs and subsequent colonialism and subjugation of Iran was and has been the most destructive cultural disaster for Iran and Iranians and a great loss for humanity.

Thanks for the episode. However, I'm afraid saying that being Iranian is just an affinity is simply wrong. I appreciate the gentleman's passion for Iran but his view is not accurate. Being Iranian is not quite as arbitrary sa having a strong affinity for Iran.

This felt way too short

Just started listening and will go thru the entire episode, but I had to drop this right away. I'm sorry, India is NOT defined or identified by the islamic invaders who were squatting, plundering, destroying, and raping, and killing our people. We had architectural marvel much before the turkish or the mughal empire existed. You're only exposed to it because you didn't know any better or you were purposefully exposed to everything Islamic. It's like the West thinking Paneer Tikka is the quintessential representation of Indian cuisine. Wrong! There are, at least, and this is humble account, more than 30 different cuisines in India that's got nothing to do with islam! There's much you don't know and yet to learn ...

It was an awesome discussion, and I enjoy it a lot, but now I have to go and study more to accept or reject a few of his statements. I am embarrassed that although I am a reader, still don’t have enough knowledge to accept or rejects those statements right away.

Rig Veda was not scribed because of so-called aryan influence. It's the reverse. The civilization of what is now India or Bharat extended all the way to Persia, and therefore, what you found in Rig Veda was being practiced by the Persians.

Ossetian’s emerged from Alan tribes from further north from Caucasus, around Don river. Don in Ossetian is water

Quoting abstract from Vedic and Avestan. N Kazanas July 2011 Page 01 *In this essay I examine independent linguistic evidence, often provided by Iranianists like R. Beekes, and arrive at the conclusion that the Avesta, even its older parts (the gāθās), is much later than the Ṛgveda. Also, of course, that Vedic is more archaic than Avestan and that it was not the Indoaryans who moved away from the common Indo-Iranian habitat into the Region of the Seven Rivers, but the Iranians broke off and eventually settled and spread in ancient Iran.*

Dear friend, Iran has been named by the Greeks (mistakenly Persia). Iranians have always called themselves Iranians (Eraanians, citizens of Iran-Shahr EranShahr). I think we should correct this historical mistake. We do not call Americans New Yorker, do we? or Canadians Albertans, do we? Thank you.

Great interview thankyou

Very informative and entertaining as always.

In fact, without Iran and all the area around it we wouldn't have the CentralAsiahollywood studios scripts of Bukhari. Islam would be another religion. The 5 prayers, Mohamed's life, Mecca , all of this appeared from a man from this area 2 centuries after the official begginings of Islam. If you don't think it's it's important, think if Napoleon's life - out of nowhere - was all recopilated in our times. Plus many terms of music, culture, etc is actually Persian. (I am Lebanese)

Well, he had some points but in general his understanding about is Iran is surprisingly shallow and biased toward Islam-it has larger market cap perhaps.

Hope some genuinely independent & qualified historians can closely validate this prog. We had enough of the bush beaters here & there…with the purpose of skilfully leaving it in no where….just because …..in this new world political system ….. Jian, trust yourself more..

Sanskrit and Urdu have more in common with Persian than Bengali and Hindi.

💚🤍❤ 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇷 VIVA 💓 PERSIA

History was not thought correctly and has been under sensorships, even during Shah in school. Devision joke between State sadly was normaI! immigrantion, and access to books and sitting next all people arround of The world. I have found i can understant music of Afghan. Tajikistan india ... And the pain with immigrantion with force and bloodshed . ( The plan of earth to universe is less than one dot. The measurement of height and compare it to each other is a joke .unfortunately stupidity is infinite ...)

Funny! All the comments from India!!!😂

Christ walked many miles across water to teach others of his Covenant and Our Heavenly Father called fallen angels false gods in his commandments and a signature of el attached to their names and separate from Polly 🦜🦜 and both birds know our language but one is forbidden. Our Heavenly Father knew that the angelic birds could be persuasive but his lightening cramps supercedes them between the pads with wings section implemented between all relationships and a reminder that we not suppose entwine with angels including the nutty cupids of sex trafficking and they came with 🍎 s.

Find a Good interpreter,send him to India. Tell Indians of what we suffered at the hands of the Arabs(Islamic invasion) So the Indians can come with their thousand Elephants and save us.

You are not in position to talk about Iran

Propaganda lie.