The most basic human right, is the right to life. To literally remain alive. I saved this article from 2022 because it was so utterly crazy that the US and Trump 1, actually sought to deny Iran any funds for fighting the coronavirus. They also did not wave sanctions on importing masks, medical equipment and vaccines, though Khamenei also banned some of the latter.

If murdering people by coronavirus isn't a moral outrage, than I am not sure what else is or would be.

The Iranian diaspora that ignored obvious signs that the US is out to murder civilians are deeply disturbed imo.

سلام دوستان عزیز، درود بر شما

My sympathies and love for the people of iran ❤️

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I'm looking for a subject expert in saffron, i want to discuss some really important things with them.

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One thing I've wondered about since reading the Shahnameh is whether or not astrology played a significant role in the courts of Iranian and Persian kings. In the Shahnameh itself, a character divining knowledge of the future through the stars is just a trope, as Ferdowsi obviously knew about the "future events" as someone from the far flung future of 1000 a.d./390 a.h. (most compellingly in Rostam of the Sassanid era's prediction of the coming fall of Iran).

But it made me wonder: did contemporary Iranians of Ferdowsi's time -- Persian or otherwise -- read the stars? Did kings have astrologers who tried to predict the future or read the fate of newly born children?