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🇮🇷 Fun and Fascinating Persia (Iran)!

🕌 Home Name: IRAN — Land of the Aryans

👑 Ancient Power: The oldest country with dozens of kings and one "King of Kings"

📖 Queen of Stories: Scheherazade, the greatest storyteller, wrote the legendary 1,001 Nights ✨

🧪 Did You Know? Alcohol was discovered by Persian chemist RHAZI over 1000 years ago! It helps kill germs.

👖 Thank Persia for Pants! If you like pants over skirts, say thank you to the Persians!

🧵 Persian Carpets: They’re world-famous and beautiful—though most do not fly 🪄

📜 Omar Khayyam’s Wisdom: “Today is the last day of your life—so enjoy it.”

✉️ Post Office Pioneers: Ancient Persia had postal routes stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean! Built by Darius the Great in 500 B.C.

🐾 Of Boys and Cats

John Steinbeck meets Scheherazade in Iran

"It's such a pity that he has to die so young," said one of the nightingales. 🐦

Bijan, a poor little boy, watched from the corner of his eye—too weak to move.

"But sister," said another bird, "is there no hope for him?"

"Only I know this is a magic tree,” replied the first nightingale, “Only I—and Hafiz." 📚

Bijan struggled, touched the Divan of Hafiz, and made a final wish. ✨

The poem he read said:
"The beautiful rose returns, after it was dead. Before its feet in respect, bows the violet’s head."

He felt the world spin—his sandals became bark, his clothes turned to leaves. 🌳

He saw fish above in the Caspian Sea and below in the Persian Gulf. 🐟

Bijan had changed. He had become... a Persian cat. 🐱

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