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Like his father before him, the shah was an Aryanist nationalist of the modern breed, not the stooge of western imperialism virtually all his subjects believed him to be...he saw social and economic development as an attempt to resemble western Europe and later America.He was embarrassed by Iran’s status as a poor and underdeveloped country...
He did not see himself as another Xerxes but as a modern Cyrus the Great.

— Oct 09, 2025 07:33AM

The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

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A rumor seriously began to circulate that the hostage-taking (American Embassy) had been carried out on Carter’s own orders... that Carter had planned the hostage-taking so that before the presidential election the hostages would be released and this would boost his vote in the election. It is quite possible that this rumor had a role in delaying the release of the hostages until Carter had lost the election.

— Oct 16, 2025 10:11PM

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(1970s) The growing welfare, higher consumption, greater employment opportunities and rapid expansion of education, which were almost
entirely due to direct and indirect state expenditure, were not only taken
for granted but were dismissed as insignificant...

— Oct 15, 2025 07:15PM

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Are we mad at Reza Khan now for wanting to omit foreign words from Farsi and building roads and railway and encouraging girls to go to school and sending young people to Europe to get educated and come back and teach in Iranian schools and building the Tehran University and bringing order to the country...?

— Oct 08, 2025 12:00AM

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از خون جوانان وطن لاله دمیده

از ماتم سرو قدشان سرو خمیده

در سایۀ گل بلبل ازین غصه خزیده

گل نیز چو من در غمشان جامه دریده
...
خوابند وکیلان و خرابند وزیران

بردند به سرقت همه سیم و زر ایران

ما را نگذارند به یک خانۀ ویران

یا رب بستان داد فقیران ز امیران

-عارف قزوینی-

— Oct 06, 2025 03:26AM

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In 1604, as part of his policy of economic development the Shah Abbas transferred thousands of industrious Armenians from the northern city of Jolfa to the southern suburb of his new capital of Isfahan, which thenceforth was called New Jolfa or Jolfa of Isfahan.

— Oct 03, 2025 03:14AM

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There were four (Shah Tahmasb's) expeditions against the Caucasian Christians between 1540 and 1553.The number of Georgian, Armenian and Circassian slaves taken in 1553 alone has been put at 30,000.

— Oct 01, 2025 10:57PM

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Zoroaster assigned individual responsibility to human beings for clean living and care for others, summarized in the moral code ‘good thoughts, good words, good deeds’.

— Sep 28, 2025 10:46PM

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— Sep 27, 2025 07:27AM