1. Persia / Iran Iran as an non-arab country
Its IRAN - not PERSIA.
In its 2500 years of existance we never called our country Persia but Iran, which means "Land of the Aryans".
It was called Persia by ancient greek historicans because the dynasty of the Achemenids (Cyrus, Xerxes; Darius and so on) came from that province.
While it was called Persia by foreigners until the 20th century the iranians themself never called it so.
It would be the same if I would call the USA "Texas" because the ruling dynasty is from this province.
2. The religion
Once Iran was conquered by the arabs. But while other nations who suffered the same fate were assimilated and gave up their culture and language and became arabs (like egypt or syria) the iranians fought a bitter war and were successful. The iranian language was not replaced by the arab language. The arabs were finally driven out of iran. And even the religion was transformed by mixing elements of the old iranian religion with islam, creating the shi ´ite islam of today.
Never asked yourself why most of the shi ´ites live in the borders of the old sassanid iranian empire ? Made of today Iran, the eastern province of Iraq, and the western province of Afghanistan - which were once part of the Empire? The old sassanid capital is SE Bagdad.
And even the Mullahs of Shi ´ite islam have the same style of cloth like the old iranian priests.
There is great hate between sunnites and shi ´ites. Both sides consider each other as heretics. That was one reason why Iran supported the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan long before these creatures were defined as bad guys. In these days the Taliban were officially supported by the sunnite Pakistan.
And today the sunnite arab Al kaida is targeting shi ´ites in Iraq - defining them as heretics.
So dont make the mistake by putting these two groups together as allies.
3. Iran during Arab-Israeli War
Someone wrote that he could find march orders of the iranian army to support the arabs.
In fact Iran delivered to Israel oil during Israel-Arab war. The Iranians always considered the sunnite arabs as the enemy. So the construction of an iranian-arab-alliance is ridiculous.
The Shah of Iran made fun of arab guests by welcoming them in official visits in Iran in front of the iranian honor guard which was equipped with israeli UZIs.
Arabs and iranians will never be allies.
Best example was during the Kuwait-Gulf War. While many arab countries sent volonteers to Saddam not a single Iranian supported them (with the exception of the MEK-terrorist, iranian traitors who fought side by side with arabs in iran-Iraq War and still live today in iraq in their military bases).
4. The embassy thing
When the USA and GB destroyed the iranian democracy in the 50ties (Operation Ajay) their command post was the US embassy in Iran.
From there the democratic prime minister Mossadegh who had kicked out the Shah to italian exile in an unbloody revolution, was deposed.
That was a tracig day for Iran, which had managed to create a democracy by itself.
Then there came the decades of Shah-terror. With his Gestapo-like secret police, the SAVAK, he killed tenthousands of iranians per year. In the infamoud Evin-Prison in Teheran thousands of democrats were tortured and killed.
It was well known that the command centre of Operation Ajax was the US embassy in Teheran.
So - when finally the bloody revolution came and the people forced the Shah to leave their country they feared that the history would repeat itself. That another Operation would become reality and the Sha and his terror regime would be reinstalled.
That was one of the reasons why they attacked the embassy. Definitvly a wrong action but not a surprise.
5 Iran and wars
In the last 100 years Iran has not attacked another country. In contrary it was attacked.
In WW1 it declared itself neutral. And was attacked
In WW2 it was pro-german and declared itself neutral. It was occupied by UK and USSR, the Shah was deposed and his son was installed and it was forced to join the allies and declare war to Germany.
After WW2 foreign organisations destroyed our democracy and installed a terror-regime which tortured Iran for 30 years and the result was the next terror regime of the Mullahs
Iraq - in those days under control of the "good guy" Saddam attacked Iran and an 8 year war followed, in which Iraq used Gas-weapons. 130.000 iranian soldiers died because of the effect of these gas weapons.
But again: Iran has not attacked another country in the last 100 years.
