Ayatollah vs. Shah
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The Zoroastrian Idea of the Madi
In zoroastrianism, god is called ahura masda and his arch enemy is araman. Araman personifies darkness, deceit, sin and chaos. The two divinities are constantly fighting for control of the earth. This story from ancient persia remains in the iranian imagination to day. It was enshrined in the shahname, the great epich of iran. Every iranian knows the story, and it maps very neatly into the story of the downfall of the shaw and the rise of hromeni. So he plans a big jambery in persepolus, celebrating 25 hundred years of persian monarchy. That is what aman
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