The 50th establishment anniversary of Assyrian Universal Alliance was held in Tehran\u2019s Laleh Hotel in the presence of state and military officials.<\/p>\n

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The Assyrian community (\u0100\u0161\u016br\u012b\u0101n) in Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n

The term \u201cAssyrian.\u201d Assyrians (\u0100\u0161\u016br\u012bs) is the term for the modern, East Syrian Christian communities in Iran. The ancient name \u201cAssyrian,\u201d derived from that of the god A\u0161\u0161ur, designated the Semitic population of north Mesopotamia and their capital city. Even before the final destruction of the Assyrian empire in 612 B.C., its population had become largely Aramaic-speaking; knowledge of its ancient language, Akkadian, had become restricted to the educated people and to scribes. This facilitated the rise of a confusion over the identity of \u201cAssyrian.\u201d The term \u201cAssyrian letters\u201d used by Herodotus (4.87) meant to Ezra (465-24 B.C., scribe to Artaxerxes I) the Aramaic alphabet he used as a scribe; with it he transcribed the Pentateuch from the ancient Hebrew script, and he read these scriptures in this form before the Jewish congregation in 444 B.C. (Nehemiah 8). The Hebrew square-letter script was developed from this alphabet and is still called ke\u1e6f\u0101\u1e07 a\u0161\u0161\u016br\u012b, \u201cAssyrian script\u201d and until the last century, the language of the Aramaic portions of the Bible continued to be called \u201cChaldean.\u201d. More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 50th establishment anniversary of Assyrian Universal Alliance was held in Tehran\u2019s Laleh Hotel in the presence of state and military officials. The Assyrian community (\u0100\u0161\u016br\u012b\u0101n) in Iran The term \u201cAssyrian.\u201d Assyrians (\u0100\u0161\u016br\u012bs) is the term for the modern, East Syrian Christian communities in Iran. The ancient name \u201cAssyrian,\u201d derived from that of the god…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[992,1464,1463,3,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}