Persia/Iran: Cyrus Was Not Your Ancestor: 2,600 Years of History vs. a Modern Political Fantasy

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Persia/Iran: Cyrus Was Not Your Ancestor: 2,600 Years of History vs. a Modern Political Fantasy

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NOW - Reza Pahlavi: "I went to Israel to show that we are the descendants of Cyrus the Great, who 25 centuries ago helped free the Jewish people and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem."

Oh please—give us a fucking break.

Let us get some facts here:

Reza Pahlavi - Not Cyrus: The Real Origins of the Pahlavi Dynasty

The founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was Mazanderani by origin, born near the Caspian coast. His background reflects northern Iranian stock—not Persian aristocracy, not Arab lineage, and not any Mediterranean or Cypriot ancestry. The Pahlavis were a modern military–bureaucratic dynasty that rose through state power, not an ancient royal bloodline tracing back to Cyrus.

The reality is simple: Iran is not synonymous with Persia. Persia is only one component of a much larger Iranian mosaic. Mazanderanis are indigenous Iranians; Mazanderanis are Iranian, but not Persian by ethnicity—even though most speak Persian today as Iran’s national language. They are a northern Iranian people from the Caspian region, with roots that long predate Islam and the Persian court culture of Fars.

Reza Pahlavi claims tying his lineage to Cyprus have no historical basis. Modern Iranian identity is multi-ethnic, layered, and ancient—not a single, uninterrupted “Persian” line.

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Myth of Continuity: Ashkenazi Jews Are Not the Ancient Israelites

The current Israelis are Ashkenazi European Jews, largely of Germanic and Eastern European origin. They are not even remotely close to the ancient Israelites, who were not Europeans, not Anglo-Saxon, and not white. That is the first big lie.

Second, the incident everyone keeps invoking happened in 586 BCE—that was over 2,600 years ago. This has nothing to do with modern white Ashkenazi European Jews. They are not the same people. At best, they may have carried a religious tradition abd faith, but there is zero ethnic or historical continuity between modern Ashkenazi Jews and the ancient Israelites.

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Death of King Solomon

After the death of Solomon (c. 930 BCE), the so-called united monarchy collapsed and split:

• Israel → the Northern Kingdom, capital Samaria

• Judah → the Southern Kingdom, capital Jerusalem

Third, there was no Kingdom of Israel when Cyrus came into the picture.

The Kingdom of Israel (Northern Kingdom) fell much earlier, in 722 BCE, to the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Samaria fell. Kingdom of Israel ceased to exist as a kingdom.

What followed was:

• Mass deportations

• Foreign resettlement

• Assimilation (many deported Israelites intermarried)

• Those who remained mixed with incoming populations

• Their descendants later became known as the Samaritans

• Some Israelites fled south into Judah

It was the Babylonians and the Medes who later destroyed the Neo-Assyrian Empire—not Israel, not Judah.

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Kingdom of Judah, and the First Temple

The First Temple (Solomon’s Temple) was built in Jerusalem, the capital of the Kingdom of Judah, not the Kingdom of Israel. It was a Judahite state temple, controlled by the Davidic monarchy.

The temple had nothing to do with the Kingdom of Israel, which had already been conquered, scattered, and dissolved before Cyrus ever appeared. It has ceased to exist as a kingdom.

In 586 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon captured Judah, destroyed Jerusalem, destroyed the First Temple, and sent Judah into exile.

One thing most people dont know is that the people from Kingdom of Judah conquered by the Neo-Babylonian Empire did not call themselves “Jews” in the modern sense.

In the 6th century BCE, the people of Judah understood themselves as Judahites (Yehudim)—literally people of Judah. This was a regional and political identity, tied to land, kingdom, and temple, not a global ethnic or religious category. Their sense of who they were came from place and polity, not from belonging to a timeless, transnational people.

They primarily identified as Israelites, Judahites, or as members of specific tribes and clans. Identity was local and concrete. There was no concept of a worldwide “Jewish people” stretching across generations and continents.

Babylon conquered Judahites, not “Jews” as understood today. What later becomes Jewish identity is a post-exilic construction, not a continuous Iron Age reality. Continuity of name and faith is not the same thing as continuity of people.

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Then:

• 539 BCE (47 years later): Cyrus the Great of Persia conquers Babylon and issued a decree allowing the Judeans to return and rebuild what became known as the Second Temple

Jerusalem then passed from Persian empire control to Alexander’s Macedonian/Greek Empire, then to the Hellenistic kingdoms, and finally to Roman empire.

The Romans took over Jerusalem not because of destiny or divine right, but because of internal Jewish infighting. The Hasmonean dynasty split between:

• Hyrcanus II

• Aristobulus II

Both sides invited Rome to intervene. Rome stepped in, took control of Jerusalem, and did not destroy the Temple.

It was only after the Jewish revolt against Rome (66–70 CE) that the Second Temple was destroyed.

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Bottom line

• 586 BCE → First Temple destroyed by Babylon

That was 2,611 years ago, before Cyrus allowed the return and rebuilding of the Second Temple

• 70 CE → Second Temple destroyed by Rome

That was 1,955 years ago

History is not a vibes-based argument.

Once you lay out the timeline honestly, the modern political myth collapses on contact.

Watch the puppet Reza Pahlavi trying so hard to please Israel

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