Re: Anne Lister's coded diaries

On 2024-07-07, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

Slightly relatedly, the Iranian president-president-elect Pezeshkian, پزشکیان،
has a transparently Armenian surname, with “pezeshk” the native Persian word
for physician. Wikipedia reports he is Azeri and I imagine he is Shia, my
working guess is that one of his ancestors converted to Islam after the point
that surnames became obligatory.

Also:
"Pezeshkian was born in the Kurdish-majority city of Mahabad in West
Azerbaijan Province and speaks fluent Kurdish and Azeri."
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-pezeshkian-profile-election-winner/33012192.html

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