Today, the18th of Farvardin 1399/2479, you are very welcome to meet Dr. Ilan Abecassis from the podcast "the Chronicles" and our patron Ahaz Israeli, and hear us talk about the 5 millennium war between the beer drinkers and the wine drinkers around the Forever-Persian Gulf, recently known as "the Iran-Iraq war"

Iran-Iraq war Timeline

23^rd century BCE – Manishistu son of Sargon of Akkad establishes a stela on Susa

694 BCE – Sennacherib king of Assyria – campaign against Elam

663 BCE – Ashurbanipal king of Assyria – campaign against Elam

612 BCE – Babylon and Medes conquered Nineveh the capital pf Assyria

539 BCE – Cyrus the great against Nabonidus of Babylon

53 BCE – Battle of Harran between the romans and the Parthians.

651 AD – The Arabs occupied the Sasnian empire.

1980 – 1988 – Iran – Iraq war

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(Hebrew) Episodes we've mentioned:

Episode 33 about the Qajar dynasty (crossover with Big History in the Little)

Episodes about Shiite Islam with Dr. Ori Goldberg (last link in English, but wasn't mentioned)

Yossi Alpher about the 1979 Revolution 

TECHNICALITIES:

If you enjoyed this episode and wish to express your gratitude, you’re very welcome to buy us a coffee or two (or more, there’s no limit!). My coffee is at www.ko-fi.com/thamar, and Ilan's is at www.ko-fi.com/IlanAbecassis. All the links are also in the post body.

The following is more relevant for Hebrew speakers, but if you reached all the way up to here, you can understand English very well, so let’s be polite and do the technicalities part also in English:

If you want to express your appreciation, you can become our patrons, mine at www.patreon.com/thamar, and Ilan's is at www.patreon.com/IlanAbc. During Corona times, my patrons in raw-material tiers receive also a video of the raw recording, and all patrons are invited to recordings.

You can also invite us to lectures – now that the whole world is at home, it doesn't really matter that we're not in the same continent. I give quite excellent Zoom lectures, and have quite a few witnesses from my online courses – Capital-tour in Iran (capitals from more than 2600 years), introduction to linguistics and Pre-Islamic Iran. The course are in Hebrew, and late joiners get links to the private YouTube recordings of the previous lectures.

You're also encouraged to buy our books – the Book of Esther Unmasekd in English is also available on Amazon as black-and-white POD and ebook. For color printing and PDF files, and my other books in Hebrew – you are welcome to our site – www.zeresh.co.il. Ilan's book and lecture invitations are on the Chronicles site – ilanabc.com.

I wish to thank all my patrons and the generous Non-Hebrew-Speaker sponsor of episodes 50-61, who wished to remain anonymous. Thank you book buyers, lecture inviters, and those of you who got me coffee – it was yummy, energizing and heartwarming.

Kiosk Song

It has to be "Nameh be Sardar", a letter to the commander, which Arash Sobhani wrote to his commander in the IRGC, who was an Iran-Iraq war veteran (in the episode – with an introduction from a live concert).

NEXT TIMES ON ENRICHED IRANIUM

Next week is Hol Hamoed, we won't have a public episode, but our patrons will receive the audio from the first lectures of my two Iranian online cour