Oct 21

The naval victory of Iran in Cape Mycale

This piece of history will be completely edited later          On 21 October 479 BC, a year and a few weeks after the sea battle of Salamis, Iranian war ships trapped a fleet of Greek Union’s trireme war ships and destroyed them. Historians of military events have written that by this victory Iranians made up for their defeat in the Salamis war, and based on the same scripts, in the Cape Mycale battle some of the Greek naval officers, who had participated in the Salamis battle, were taken captive by Iran and sent to Iranian territory for investigations about the deceiving tactics used by Greece in that war.               Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour