The Freedom Chronicles,
Vol. 3.2.26
The Greek historian Herodotus tells us that Cyrus succeeded to the Persian throne in 559 BC. After conquering numerous neighboring kingdoms, including Media, Bactria. Armenia and Lydia, he conquered Babylonia, whose holdings doubled the size of his empire and made him the sole ruler of what we now know as Asia Minor. In conquering the Babylonians, the historian tells us he repatriated numerous captive peoples.
This comports with descriptions in both the Christian Bible and the Jewish Tanakh. The book of Ezra, verses 1-4, states that Cyrus permitted the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem and even financed the rebuilding of their Temple, destroyed by the hated Babylonians. In the Tanakh, Cyrus is portrayed not merely as a political liberator but also as one who fulfilled God’s promise to restore His people after 70 years of exile.
Two-thousand five hundred years later, a Cyrus-like ruler from the Judeo-Christian West is poised to repay the Persian people with their freedom, after they have suffered 50 years in bondage. The destruction of the hated rule of Muslim theocrats will be welcomed by the vast majority of today’s Iranians, for they are not Iranian, they are Persian.
The celebrating crowds in the cities across Iran know their history. One thousand years after their king, Cyrus, freed the Jews, the marauding Armies of Allah conquered their homeland and brutally imposed upon them the foreign belief system of a primitive warrior cult known as Islam. There is a mystical, one might say, a biblical significance in the Americans and Israelis fighting to free the Persians from their Muslim overlords.
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