Narrative of the Islamic Republic of Iran about the eight years of Iran-Iraq war is a man’s narrative. Iranian women fought on the fronts in some cases. According to the statistics of Shahid Foundation, the number of women killed in the Iran-Iraq war is 6,428. Some 500 Iranian women reportedly fought as combatants during the […]
Cyrus was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Western Asia and much of Central Asia. Spanning from the Mediterranean Sea and Hellespont in the west to the […]