With President Donald Trump ’s decision to intervene in the Iran- Israel war, Iran, a country 6,500 miles away from ...

The 1940s map presents the Middle East from an Iranian perspective. Iran is highlighted in yellow, standing out from the uniform green of the surrounding countries. In the margins appears a Persian ...

US president Donald Trump, is by consensus, an ignorant but loud-mouthed know it all man. We have this information from his sister and aunt, who attest that he employed hired hands to do his homework ...

I don't know." Ask a Persian? "Why no, my friend! I hate poetry! It's so antiquated!" "Oh. Do you know any good poems?" "Yes, ...

Strait of Hormuz, political map. Waterway between Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, a strategically extremely important choke point, with Iran to the north and UAE and Oman exclave Musandam to the south.

Making of an empire As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

The history of Iranian-Israeli relations shows how ancient alliances can turn into modern conflicts, but maybe now is the ...

And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea. And all the acts of his power and of his might, ...

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

From Cyrus to Alexander : a history of the Persian Empire by Briant, Pierre Publication date 2002 Topics Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C, Iran -- History -- To 640 Publisher Winona Lake, IN : ...

On Shattered Lands, his book about the five partitions of the Indian Empire and the many forgotten stories attached to them ...

Map of the Persian Empire, centered on Iran, from Historical Atlas, William R. Shepherd, 1911. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain This region is roughly equivalent to the ancient land of Persis.