bagpipes were invented in persia (modern day iran), not scotland.

the u.s. armed iraq to combat iran, which was our mutual enemy at the time. there is even a photograph of donald rumsfeld - who ran the pentagon under george w. bush - shaking qaddafi's hand. when we invaded iraq to secure the world's second largest oil field, we fought troops that we had trained, who were using weapons that the u.s. government supplied to them.

the roman empire was only the 19th largest empire in history. the largest was the 1st persion empire, which contained 44% of the world's population.

the u.s. shot down iran air flight 655 - a regularly scheduled commercial flight in iranian air space - killing everyone on board, including 66 children. they misidentified the airliner as a much smaller, american-made fighter. no apology for the incident was ever made nor responsibility taken by the u.s., but they pay us$62 million in restitution to the victims' families - about us$213,000 for each death.

70% of iran's science and engineering students are women.

in 1953, the cia, british petroleum (bp), and britain's mi6 spy agency ousted iran's democratically elected president and put exiled king shah pahlavi in power, under the condition that he allow foreign oil companies - such as bp - to continue to operate in iran.

as a result of this deal, the shah became incredibly wealthy, and ordered his breakfast flown in from france every morning while his people lived in poverty.

years later, iran's religious leaders helped lead a revolution against the shah. they privatized all of iran's oil operations and the shah escaped to egypt.

iran has hated great britain and the united states ever since.