Chapar Khaneh is the Persian term that refers to the postal service system used throughout the Persian Empire 559-530 BC. It was created by Cyrus & later developed by Darius as the royal method of communication throughout the empire. Each station was mainly located along the Royal Road, an ancient highway which stretched from Sardis […]
In late 1920, the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic in Rasht was preparing to march on Tehran with “a guerrilla force of 1,500 Jangalis, Kurds, Armenians and Azerbaijanis”, reinforced by the Bolsheviks’ Red Army. This fact, along with various other disorders, mutinies and unrest in the country created an acute political crisis in the capital. By […]