To: 308MBR
No!
Iran (Persian) has never been colonized or ruled by foreign governments.
Those countries including Syria, Jordan, Saudi, Kuwait, Iraq... etc were part of the Ottoman empire and later with the help of the Brits these countries were formed as nation-states.
Iran has always been independent and free of foreign ruling
26 posted on
01/09/2006 4:12:20 PM PST by
F14 Pilot
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To: F14 Pilot
Iran (Persian) has never been colonized or ruled by foreign governments.
Actually it has -- originally the Medes (not sure if they were an Indo-European people) were conquered by the Assyrians before overthrowing them. Then the Greeks conquered Iran, then the Mongols, then the Timurids.
28 posted on
01/09/2006 6:45:54 PM PST by
Cronos
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