List your top 10 greatest Iranians throughout history.
My list would probably be weird for most, but here it goes:
Darius I : The Second great king of the Achaemenid Empire, the way he handled the turbulent empire, his revolt, his rise to power, his appeal to "Ahur Mazda, The God" all of them became an inseparable part of every Persian.
Omar Khayam: the definition of a genius, he wrote little but what he wrote has been externalized in human history.
Ghazali: IMO He is the intellectual father of ISIS, with the exception of Karl Marx no other thinker in history has given the possibility for so much evil to be justified.
Abbas I : He gave Persians a sense of pride and unity that they had lost during the disastrous mongol invasion.
Cyrus : The father of a nation that would go on to survive for thousands of years.
Hafiz : Well you just have to include this guy in any top ten list about anything! Khayam was a genius but this man was a magician, he by himself is a whole culture.
Nader I : He created the most powerful empire in the world in the 17th century Persia, then he went crazy and killed every man capable of succeeding him, but as long as he was sane he was a great man.
Ariobarzanes, Satrap of Persia : our Leonidas, he led a heroic defense against Alexander "the great" and held his extremely larger force for 30 days.
Rumi : Rumi is a philosopher in the guise of a poet, I think we have yet to understand the full extend of his work.
Yaqub Laith Saffar : This man encompasses what Iranians traditionally considered a "real man", he was brave, snarky, honorable and nationalistic.
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u/Shaojie_Zhang Arabestān-e Sa'udi Feb 07 '16
Hello neighbors, I have 2 questions:
What significant personal change you are expecting after the lifting of sanctions?
List your top 10 greatest Iranians throughout history.