Revolution in Iran

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Other way around.
They do not have to win they only have to survive and even the Roman Empire was reluctant to take on the Persians.

This is an ancient, very smart group of people. Most of them where I live have advanced degrees in sciences, engineering, computers and math.
Rome did not engage with Persians until the Sassanid empire. What you are referring to was not Persians but Parthians. The Parni are Scythians. A tribe that originated out of the steppes. Which went on to defeat and replace the Greek Seleucid empire in area that once belonged to the Persians.

Your comment would be akin to saying that Apache beat Custer at the battle of Little Big Horn, when it was the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho.

The Romans struggled with Parthia and Scythian's same as many peoples did at that time also to include the Huns another steppe peoples. Rome's warfare doctrine was heavy infantry. While Parthia's was a precursor to what we would today call blitzkrieg or lightning war.

Their use of the horse archer and the cataphract was devastating especially in the case of Crassus and his foolishness. However, he wanted to garner some of the glory that Caesar and Pompey in their Triumvirate were getting.

Rome later on changing up their doctrine to combined arms saw success against Parthia. This as well as them taking Parthia's national treasury. Combined as well with then bribing minor kings in the Parthian empire. To which a weakened Parthia gave way for the Persians, the Sassanid's to return to power. Parthia was decentralized and set up like what we would recognize as Medieval Europe. The king calling up minor lords and their lands to bolster the standing army. So it made them susceptible to bribery to rebel.

Also to note the Romans did later adopt the cataphract or the armored horseman. Which led to the armored knight.

One thing I always found was cool and how it influenced western Christianity is the Persian Pairidaeza or walled or enclosed garden. It is the word we now use when we say paradise. Came to us of course by way of the Greeks and the picture the thief would have had when he is told today you will be with me in paradise. As well as why in western culture we refer to the Garden of Eden as paradise.

However, I am rambling........LOL Main thing I wanted to point out that it was Parthians not Persians and they are distinctly different from Persians, which both would be considered what we today would call Iranian peoples
 
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If Gulf despot monarchs lose their oil industry they lose their grip on power.

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This guy is an IRGC goon......

Seyed Mohammad Marandi
@s_m_marandi
This photo was proudly taken beside the IRGC logo when I was a 16 year old volunteer fighting the US backed invasion of Iran. It was probably around that time that the "civilized" Europeans & Americans were transferring technology for producing chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein.