Episode 1 🔥 THE TRIANGLE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD
🔥 THE TRIANGLE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD A Blog Series on Iran, the United States & Israel 📖 EPISODE 1: Before the Fire — The Forbidden Alliance From Cyrus the Great to the Shah’s Secret Handshakes “Our relations are like a true love between people without their getting married. It’s preferable that way.” — David Ben-Gurion , Israel’s founding Prime Minister, on Iran, 1961 🏛️ PROLOGUE: A 2,600-Year-Old Bond Before there was an Israel. Before there was a United States. Before there was even a modern Iran — there was Persia , and there were the Jews . The year is 539 BCE . The great King Cyrus the Great , founder of the mighty Achaemenid Empire, marches into Babylon and does something no conquering king had ever done before. He frees the Jewish people from captivity — an exile that had lasted decades — and personally commands the rebuilding of their sacred Temple in Jerusalem. In the Book of Ezra , the decree reads: “Thus saith Cyrus, King of Persia: All the kin...