BTW, does n e 1 have footage from the party the shah held in persepolis in '72 to mark its 2500 birthday??

This is how iran was one day.... A respected nation... (my grand fathers brother was in that celebration)

Source Cyrus Kadivar and aryamehr.org

http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/2.jpg
http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/3.jpg
http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/4.jpg
http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/5.jpg
http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/6.jpg
http://aryamehr.org/pic/2500/photo169.jpg
http://aryamehr.org/pic/2500/photo297.jpg


Tent city build for the celebrations

http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/16.jpg
http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/17.jpg

Empress Farah and the monarch of Ethiopia

http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/7.jpg

Princess Grace, accompanies by Prince Rainier of Monoco, curtsies the Shah.

http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/8.jpg

Empress Farah with King Hussein of Jordan and Princess Sophie of Spain.

http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/10.jpg

:applause:

wonderful pics shayan.

to bad those crazy islamic basiji idiots destroyed the tent city next to perspolis!

wow, tribute to the great kings and the empire! amazing... :cry:

btw when was naqsh e rostam discovered? i mean what did they say when they saw it... never knew that was there :lol:

wonderfull pics. what happened to those greenery

What a lovely set of pics. Thanks :)

lovely pictures

javid shah

fking islamic republic

hope Gillgamesh learned something of this wonderful pictures

I don't come to this forum often and I don't know who gilgamesh is, but there are so many brainwashed Iranians who adore the Islamic republic that you just want to cry :ohno::ohno::ohno:
But that doesn't mean you guys should be supporting the shah. Shah ye gohi bood ina gohtar.

This is how iran was one day.... A respected nation... (my grand fathers brother was in that celebration)

Source Cyrus Kadivar and aryamehr.org


http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/3.jpg

That's Sweden's crown prince, now king. (in sunglasses next to Iran's crown prince)

Wonderful pics, it make wonder how amazing was the celebration.

http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/111/par215220yi2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
IRAN. Persepolis. 1971. At the 2500 th celebration of the Iranian Monarchy, dinner is served under a designer tent. Left to right are Prince RAINIER of Monaco, Prince PHILIP of great Britain, Crown Prince GUSTAV of Sweden and Vice President Spiro AGNEW of the USA.

heif.

heif.

liaghatesho nadashtim

Here is a geat video celebrating 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire with footage from the parade grounds.

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The Shah buried his own grave with the Mullahs. Ayatollah Khomeini repeatedly stated that the only portion of Iran's past worth studying was the portion after Iran's transformation into an Islamic country following its conquest by Arab and Muslim armies. As early as 1924, Khomeini wrote in an essay that "Before Islam, the lands now blessed by our True Faith suffered miserably because of ignorance and cruelty. There is nothing in that past that is worth glorification." Pursuant to that philosophy, the new Islamic Republic sought to crush any and all remnants of secular Iranian nationalism. They did so, of course, by bringing an end to the "2,500 year old" monarchy, but they also sought to make Iran less a land of Cyrus and Darius, and more a land of Mohammad.

The new Islamic Republic was forced to adopt some of the vestiges of secular Iran's past thanks to the onset of war against Iran by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Seeking to preempt Khomeini's religious aura, Saddam announced that the war against Iran was like the war waged against the "heathen" Persians by the Arab and Muslim armies that conquered Persia and brought it under Islamic rule for the first time.Khomeini then rallied the Iranian youth under Nationalist ferver bringing the past and into play although considered haram in Islamic law.Since our forefathers not Muslim but Zoroastrian.Considered Pagan's by Muslim clerics.

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great pics. thank u

Perfect pics Aryamehr thank you, though not all of them are from the 2500th celebration.

only one country disliked this celebration and that was..

......who?

...Iran. Which is not true! Most people were ambivolent at the time and still are.

@persian: Thanks :)

@Omid Sultani: Thanks.

sinasina, I will tell you which nations did not like this. The western world did not. They were jealous at the Shah for doing such thing, they were jealous, very very jealous. George Wildman Ball in USA said, "Who do the Shah think he is?" after he did this.

Many countries, their presidents/ministers refused to come, instead they sent representatives.. like USA and UK I think.

Either way ... this celebration pissed of the western power, as usual.. they do not like Iran to be strong. If you look at all the history school books in western world today, there is nothing good written about Iran. Only the wars we lost to Greece. No mention of the first human rights charter, insurance, banks, posts, no slavery, payment to workers, founder of battery, alcohol, great medicines, great doctors etc.

No other country in the history of man kind ever put on a military parade of more then 2,500 years of Imperial power.

Total Respect.

Mavey, so true.

What's even more amazing is, world leaders from almost all over the world and there was so much security in the country that no attempts to take the lives away from them happened or any sabotage attempts. How many nations in the world can provide such security that we had at that time?

Thoose days Iran was 8465165465146515 times more responsible and effective than today in all fields.

Nationalism is always beautiful!:cheers:

This is how iran was one day.... A respected nation... (my grand fathers brother was in that celebration)

Source Cyrus Kadivar and aryamehr.org

http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/2.jpg
http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/3.jpg
http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/4.jpg
http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/5.jpg
http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/6.jpg
http://aryamehr.org/pic/2500/photo169.jpg
http://aryamehr.org/pic/2500/photo297.jpg


Tent city build for the celebrations

http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/16.jpg
http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/17.jpg

Empress Farah and the monarch of Ethiopia

http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/7.jpg

Princess Grace, accompanies by Prince Rainier of Monoco, curtsies the Shah.

http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/8.jpg

Empress Farah with King Hussein of Jordan and Princess Sophie of Spain.

http://www.iranian.com/CyrusKadivar/2002/January/2500/Images/10.jpg

wowowowo great persia!

@persian: Thanks :)

@Omid Sultani: Thanks.

sinasina, I will tell you which nations did not like this. The western world did not. They were jealous at the Shah for doing such thing, they were jealous, very very jealous. George Wildman Ball in USA said, "Who do the Shah think he is?" after he did this.

Many countries, their presidents/ministers refused to come, instead they sent representatives.. like USA and UK I think.

Either way ... this celebration pissed of the western power, as usual.. they do not like Iran to be strong. If you look at all the history school books in western world today, there is nothing good written about Iran. Only the wars we lost to Greece. No mention of the first human rights charter, insurance, banks, posts, no slavery, payment to workers, founder of battery, alcohol, great medicines, great doctors etc.

Jealousy? The US? UK? Of Iran? 0_o
I am not trying to decrease the value of Iran, but I don't think such nations would be jealous.
Actually, as someone who was taught evil western history, our subject talked about the developments of Iran as a part of human rights.
It also discussed the influence of Persia upon the west.
We are not as ignorant as you think. :)
Think before you speak.

Iran back then wasn't that great. It was just all superficial greatness.

Sure these pictures might be nice, but this party was too extravagant for a country that was so steeped in poverty at the time. Not nice!