From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-07-07, Aidan Kehoe  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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