The Shah & 2500 Years of Imperial Rule 3/8 [see desc for dl]

[lilaynaz]

@TheRoyalOfficer you are either uneducated or just ignorant of the fact that these accounts are suggested from both Iranian and non-Iranian historical sources (e.g. The ancient Greek historians Ctesias and Plutarch).

[TheLoyalOfficer]

@PERSIANsuperiorRACE Death to America?

GO FUCK YOURSELF

[daniel1c]

YES, the PERSIAN's did not have slaves! The had a highly ranked system where everybody was paid a wage. It is ISLAM that allows, and condones SLAVERY!!! It's only after Islam that Slavery was introduced to IRan, not that was the worst of what they brought!!!!!!! The lowest worker that was part of building Persopolis got paid with a bucket of wheat for their work

[daniel1c]

YES, the PERSIAN's did not have slaves! The had a highly ranked system where everybody was paid a wage. It is ISLAM that allows, and condones SLAVERY!!! It's only after Islam that Slavery was introduced to IRan, not that was the worst of what they brought!!!!!!!

[TheLoyalOfficer]

"No slaves in the Persian Empire."

Um... WHAT???

[TheKourosh1990]

@TheLoyalOfficer

yes Iranians were not like Greeks

Iraninas were even more civilized than greeks

[TheLoyalOfficer]

@TheLoyalOfficer Of course the Persians had slaves - thousands of them! Where do you think the captives went after wars? How do you think the minerals well pulled out of the mines and the stone cut from the quarries to build their "magnificent civilization"?

[CyrusOfPersia]

@TheLoyalOfficer Paid labor my friend... The Achamenid empire did not condone nor used slavery... All Labor was paid for...

FREEDOM!!!!

[TheLoyalOfficer]

@CyrusOfPersia Ridiculous. Read your history. There was not a single paid quarryman or miner in the world until probably around 300AD - ANYWHERE.

[CyrusOfPersia]

@TheLoyalOfficer It is very funny you asking me to read my history.... As I have studies Persian History and Culture. Yes the Prisoners of war and people who revolted against the Persian rule, where captured and set to work. But they were paid for their labor and were not ill treated, as slaves in Greece, Rome and Egypt.

You can say they got to pull their own weight...

FREEDOM!!!

[TheLoyalOfficer]

@CyrusOfPersia h-ttp://ancienthistory.about.c­om/b/2007/03/15/ancient-persia­n-slaves.h-t-m

Check out that article. There are thousands of tablets in which there are persian slave transactions.

[CyrusOfPersia]

@TheLoyalOfficer your link does not work.

The Persians did not have slaves in the same sense as the Romans, where the slaves were exploited for any pleasure of the Romans. What you call slavery and slave trade was paid labor. No man, child nor woman did work under the Achamenid rule without getting his or her share.

Slavery came to Persia later.....

Slavery was made illegal by Cyrus the Great. And he said directly in his decree, that any one who would engage in slavery would be punished.

[TheLoyalOfficer]

@CyrusOfPersia Remove the dashes from the link and it will work. *Maybe* - MAYBE there were no slaves within Persia itself, but in the other lands?

Egypt? Babylon? Judeah? All of these regions had slaves and the Persians tolerated it fully - and profited from it.

[CyrusOfPersia]

@TheLoyalOfficer Let us take Babylon as an example. When the Persians "liberated Babylon" (Conquered), Cyrus the great ordered the freeing of all slaves.

One of the reasons that the Persian Empire is the greatest the world has ever seen, is in the difference of how the Emipre was ruled. The Persians Spread Filantropy, tolerance and freedom.

Slavery was forbidden in the Persian Empire by Cyrus The great. That was one his first acts when he entered Babylon.

FREEDOM!!!

[TheLoyalOfficer]

@CyrusOfPersia Cyrus was not the first Persian emperor. And if he "banned" slavery, how come there are so many tablets from that time in Babylon referring to slave trading?

You have a rosy-colored view of history. It is dangerous to put one nation's past up on a pedestal without looking at the truth of what they did (and did not do.)

[clance2002]

This was a way for the Shah to introduce Iran and the Persian culture to the world; well done the "narrator" of this piece. I hope you so called Persians who live in Iran Iran or anywhere in the world learn more about your culture and raise you head high with pride and say you are from Iran and value your Persian culture which is unfortunately dying out; It is incredible howmany young Iranians you meet in Uk who are so oblivious about their culture.

[MrArzhang1]

You should proudly raise your head up , and say we never had Slaves or Slavery in our constitution .

[darkhyena]

Thank you so much for uploading this. I had in the past only seen snippets of it in documentaries.

It makes me all the more eagre to learn about this fascinating culture (and who knows, maybe even learn Farsi!)

[NawrozNawrozi]

just a few years later this fantasy lover Shah was thrown into the garbage can of history.

[manuelherrera777]

Amazing to realize that only 8 years later, the Shah would be driven from Iran by revolution.

[alldamnnamesaretaken]

The way a small tribe, became the empire of Paarsia, is amazing!

And this parade is awesome, if only more nations would hold historical parades!

[pasargad777]

marg bar har chi arabzadeh va arabdoost. javid shah. payandeh iran.

[icefisherman5000]

روح شاه شاد. ما ایرانی‌‌ها مردم بدبختی هستیم، تا وقتی‌ آدم خوب زنده هست قدر نمیدونیم. افتخار، آسایش، احترام، نعمت، شادی و دلم خوش رو دادیم و به جاش آخوند، ، شلاق، اعدام و بدبختی و زندانی شدن و آوارگی رو گرفتیم. واقعاً ملت احمقی هستیم، یعنی‌ یک گاو پیش ما مدرک دکترا داره.

[chaghar]

seems like youve had more lizards than you should.

[taraevazzadeh]

Answer to the GLSS00 it can be a custom to say we respect all of persian kings

[jimiydoorshamelech]

Both the mullah (religous cleric) as the interrogator knew full well that this also gave the interrogator permission to rape Nadereh. The interrogator got what he wanted and fulfilled his religious duty in the bargain. Thousands of young women were executed in Iranian prisons (1), most of them were raped under Islamic law.

Shukuh Jalalie

-A list of 1,400 has been collected and published by Iranian Political Prisoners Action Committee. Some were pregnant, many were under 17

[USMCkid89]

hnn I'm sure Iran wouldnt last long in a Modern battle or war.

actually i know this for a fact.

hell the reason why no one has attacked Iran yet is cause its a shithole and no one wants to clean up their mess

[Fravahar]

troy the german and tohitler the nastiest killer of 20 th century, and then read the human rights declaration of cyrus the great, next time before u give comments, WITH RESPECT

[Fravahar]

troy the german you should first read about adolf hitler before u comment iranian history zthx

[Fravahar]

alpha pegaqsi, now take this from an aryan iranian with respect: dont slave other humanbeingslike athen and sparta did, and learn from iranian kings like cyrus the great to respect other races, cyrus the first king of mankind who STOPED SLAVERY, that time in athen were about 50 % slaves, and at that time before islam attacked us women were equal to men, perhaps you should read the greek XENOPHON, thx

[Fravahar]

iranian monarchy is the base of our political unity,

communists and islamic get this: WE IRANIAN DONT SACRIFICE OUR HISTORY FOR YOUR FAVOUR,

i know communists and nasty islamics hate iran and they hate iranian monarchy,

a modern monarchy like spain due to our gloriuos history, prepared for new times,

IRAN is an old nation and it should respect its history

[jimiydoorshamelech]

Female Journalist in Iran Gang-raped, tortured, skull fractured, and killed

Iran Press News:

A doctor employed at Bagheeyehollah Hospital in Tehran (connected with the revolutionary guards) where Zahra Kazemi, deceased Iranian/Canadian photojournalist was transferred before dying, left Iran and for the first time, in an interview with a German publication divulged that the regime's interogators and goons had brutally gang-raped the photojournalist while she was under questioning and torture.

[AmirSheibany]

Javid Shah..!  Shahanshah !!

[iransara]

KINGDOM FOR IRAN

LONG LIVE SHAH

[BehzadHamedani]

We want a King like japan, spain, netherland, sweden .....

[seanamico]

Look, Your so called Islamic revolution was not any thing Iranians wanted, you had many people that came to Iran flooding the streets that were not Iranian and a bunch of fanatic animals that wanted Islam because it was a dead religoin. So please do not think any nation around Iran has higher education than Iranians. The population of Afghans that lived in Iran before 79 was little and no one would have treated them different so save your BS. What are talking about the shah, you no nothing.

[seanamico]

What are you talking about little boy. Iranians live under horrible conditions with these Islamic pig mullahs. Islam has brought this nation to its worst poverty since the English sucked the life out of Iran. Iranians cannot live properly as they are and to have a flood of over 2 millions afghans move in and require work and food and shelter. All the money of the nation goes to Hezbolah and accounts of fucking Mullahs. The people that toppled were few blook thirsty Islamist, get a life.

[lordevarts]

the persian empire such as the time of kurosh already has the understanding of human right, religious freedom to the people but also to jews. i can say none of any empires in the world were having this experience at all. thats what i like it about.

[persianillidan]

The Xerxes was the man who showed the Respect to the Greec and Sparta , who gave the gift to theire gods the person who didnt kill anyone in Athen and didnt Born the city !!!!!! so pls come down with ur bullshits :)

[Iwillaimaturhead]

honestly the persian empire was great, and they may have been unstoppable but their reason to attack greece was right, but it's foolish to send wave after wave of lightly equipped infantry against very well trained and well equipped SPARTANS, but the reason was just, greece also had a just reason for the war, but i don't want to start a huge argument here, and ultimatly I respect the persians, just not Xerxes, he's a dumbass.

[whitefacechina]

Ever Persian empire is the most powerful country in the world!They set up the fist regular cavalry troop!

[PERSIAaryanIRAN]

IRAN = land of Aryans

the world will submit too our persian kings again

[seanamico]

No more kings thank you. Iran needs to be free and bring the democracy we invented and had before slave driven Greece and not have one person influenced or scared. Strong governemnt, united anti Islam Iran is what is needed.

[resumetilit]

I don't share your views on Islam, or what I believe to be "true" Islam. But I completely agree with your point on women.

[1971salome]

mehdi14b: merci man ingadar gashang nemitonestam benewisam..

javid shah 2

[yashil17]

ya, but the persians were really famous for their archers and cavalry, which came from Armenia and the Persians themselves.

[UserNameForYeeTube]

A very cool parade, displaying the infantry and archers of the Achaemenids... and the cavalry of the Arsacid and Sassanid dynasties.

Oh, how I love cavalry! It is a shame that the quality of the video is what it is, and we cannot see the units (infantry, too!) in better detail. For example, the bardings look impressive, as does the armour of the riders themselves.

[Jal8919536]

It was in this parade detailing Iranian history that the religious fanatics felt that Islam was being snubbed, which lead to the Islamic Revolution.

[mehdi14b]

افسوس که کر بودیم و به ایشان گوش فرا ندادیم و چه بی خرد بودیم که چنین رهبر خردمند و ایران پرست را ارج ننهادیم. ما به او گوش ندادیم وقتی که بما هشدار داد و از اتحاد شوم ارتجاع سرخ و سیاه گفت.

هنوز هم بسیاری از ایرانیان درک نکرده اند او که بود و برای ما چه کرد و چه نا سپاس ملتی بودیم که انهمه فداکاری را به انگونه بی خردی پاسخگو شدیم.

تاریخ داوری خواهد کرد و روزی این ایرانی پاک نهاد و شریف جایگاه راستین خود را باز خواهد یافت.

جاویدان شاد روان پاکش

[MohammadX101]

ignorance is ignorance whether it's spoken in persian, arabic or english.

likewise, wisdom is wisdom in any language.

does anybody care if the ignorant person is persian, arab or chinese? only the racist do. Racists think that their ignorance is somehow better than the other races' ignorance.

[savalanoglu]

ba poole mehroomin......!

[resumetilit]

You are 100% correct that most in the world think Iranians are Arabs, but this is because they don't know a single Iranian. So, when you say THE WORLD, do you mean the ignorant and the uneducated, or WORLD SCIENTISTS? If the latter, please refer me to the studies that support your claim.

[iranarabi]

History books such as, Iran from persia to islam. History of iran. Encyclopedia. Wikipedia. etc.

I think misunderstood my point; I implied that Cyrus died 600 BC (some 2600 yrs ago) and ever since things have changed dramatically.

Genetically, the current iranian are not the same as persians of Cyrus era. There are all sorts of research prints in British library that back up the latter point.

[19701350]

Javid Shah and javid shahanshahieh Iran

[BehzadHamedani]

Javid Shah

Javid Fouladvand

payande Aryaboom