Forty days after Khamenei's martyrdom, Iran's official media compared his portrait with that of Cyrus the Great, the first king of the ancient Persian Achaemenid Empire.
And a single sentence evaluation: “A Civilization Never Dies” (A Civilization Never Dies).
Cyrus the Great is one of the most proud figures in Iranian history.
Former King Pahlavi once mobilized the entire nation in 1971 to hold a grand 2,500-year anniversary celebration of the founding of the country, stunning the world.
This time, Iranians specifically wrote on the image of Cyrus the Great’s rock inscription: “2,550 years ago.”
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1862042459720779/
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