For this purpose we must ignore modern political boundaries and look at historical developments in the Greater Iran, a vast area covering the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Central Asia, beyond the frontiers of present-day Iran.
为此我们必须忽略现代政治的界限，回顾在历史发展中的大伊朗：广阔的地区覆盖了高加索地区、美索不达米亚、安纳托利亚和亚洲中部，超越现今的伊朗边境。