Oct 12

The day when the wish of Kourosh the Great, for creating the Persian Empire, was fulfilled.

This piece of history will be completely edited later           Cyrus The Great On 11 October 1971, on occasion of the 25th century of establishment of the central government and the vast Persian Empire, the largest congress on Iranology was inaugurated in Iran, in which all the easternologists of the world and relevant historians participated. Establishment of the central government in Iran, by Kourosh the Great (Sirous = Cyrus) was announced in October 559 BC and was practically materialized in October 539 BC, after conquer of Babylonia (situated 90 km south of present Baqdad, next to Euphrates River and Hella city, and the whole of the Babylonia region, upto Assyria was the 9th Satrapi of Iran, from the Achamenian era upto the end of the Sassanian era). On 12 October 539 BC, Babylonia was conquered by Iranian army and Kourosh the Great entered the city and declared fulfillment of his wish which was to create the Persian Empire, and mentioned the efforts he had made in the past 20 years to accomplish his wish. It was in this      city that Kourosh let free the Jewish inhabitants imprisoned by the Babylon government and declared the human rights. The cylinder on which the human rights charter of Kourosh is written is remaining from those days.     On the anniversary of the declaration of Kourosh of establishment of the Persian Empire, the heads of world states, who were invited in 1971 on occasion of the anniversary, visited the tomb of Kourosh the Great, the founder of Iran (Persian Empire), in Pasargad, and praised Kourosh as the man who declared that all human beings have equal rights and esteem, and, in order to fulfill his ideas he decided to establish a world government formed of commonwealth nations. On this day, the then king of Iran delivered a speech at the tomb of Kourosh, the first and last paragraphs of which are as follows:     Kourosh, the great King, King of Kings, King of the land of Iran, praise be to you.     Kourosh the great King, King of Kings, leader of all free men, and the hero of the history of Iran and the world, rest in peace, because we are awake and will always stay awake.     On 16 October of the same year, in Takhte Jamshid and in the presence of the invited heads of states the parade of the history of Iran was performed. In this parade soldiers wearing uniforms and carrying equipment of each era of the history of Iran, marched before the guests, and this ceremony was directly broadcasted in the TV with detailed description by Iraj Gorgin. The Tomb of Cyrus the Great in Pasargad (Pars)           Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour (AmordadNews writer)