An Iranian boy, with a gaze painted in ocean blue 🌊

🏰This is the site of one of the greatest Iranian efforts against the Muslims.

The Babak Castle is a symbol of one of the most magnificent and longest Iranian resistances against the Abbasid caliphs. It is located in the northeastern province of East Azerbaijan on a mountain at an altitude of 2700 meters. This stronghold was nearly impossible for the Caliphate's armies to breach.
Babak and his companions successfully resisted numerous armies of the Abbasid caliphs, especially Mamun and Al-Mu'tasim, for over two decades during the 9th century, and repeatedly defeated the caliph's troops.
With the fall of Babak's fortress and his death, one of the last and most serious centers of armed Iranian resistance against the Abbasid Caliphate was silenced; however, after that, cultural movements and local Iranian governments continued the path to Iranian independence through other means.

Babak Khorramdin was one of the most prominent Iranian revolutionary leaders and the leader of the Khorramite movement.
Babak was eventually betrayed and captured. He was brought to Samarra (the Abbasid capital at the time) and executed in January 838 AD. By order of Caliph Al-Mu'tasim, his hands and legs were publicly amputated before he was crucified and decapitated. Historical accounts note that Babak defiantly washed his own face with his bleeding arm so that the executioners would not mistake his pale skin for fear.🥀

What you hear is a 3500-year-old hymn in the language of our ancestors.
🌞🏛️ The resonant sound of "MehrYasht" echoes from the depths of ancient Iran; a prayer in the Old Persian language dedicated to the god Mithra, before sunrise...🌅

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