Pan-Iranism is an ideology that advocates solidarity and reunification of the people living in the Iranian Plateau (Falaat-e Iran), including Azeris, Baluchis, Ironians (Ossetians), Kurds, Pashtuns, and Tajiks. These people lived in unity until the mid 1800’s, when the Iranian Plateau was divided and conquered by the Russian and British Empires, the colonial powers of the time.The term Pan-Iranism was first introduced by Dr. Mahmoud Afshar Yazdi in the early 1920’s. In the 1940’s, the Pan-Iranist movement gained momentum. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, two political parties were formed based on this ideology, namely the Nation of Iran Party, and the Pan-Iranist Party of Iran. Both these parties are currently active inside the country and abroad.
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