Velayati's reaction to the US foreign minister's claims against Iran's civilization: "If you let Qaterchi become the Prime Minister, the situation in the court will not get better than this"

Ali Akbar Velayati, the international advisor of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, wrote in a note: Mr. Rubio should be asked to study a course of Iranian history, which is more obligatory for him than bread.

Fars: Ali Akbar Velayati, the international advisor of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, wrote in a note: Mr. Rubio should be asked to study a course of Iranian history, which is more obligatory for him than bread.

May God bless Mr. Ali Hatami, the famous Iranian filmmaker, he made the movie Kamal-ul-Molk in 1362. In a part of this film, Naser al-Din Shah, who was upset by the crowding of the court, addressed his chancellor, Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Sultan, Atabek Azam, who was busy shouting: "If you leave Qaterchi as the chief minister, the situation in the court will not get any better!"

Today's example of this kind of reference to an uneducated pretentious person is Mr. Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State and his words during his recent trip to Greece, which I have discussed before. In this trip, Rubio wants to try to reproduce the "East-West confrontation" discourse and rebuild the broken ties between the United States and Europe by referring to the Iran-Greece wars. However, the use of false and baseless historical narratives to solve today's complex international issues has faced many criticisms.

The fact and historical studies show that the destruction of the city of Athens and the Acropolis by the Achaemenid forces around 480 BC is a proven historical fact. However, to reduce this battle to a one-sided aggression without considering the background of the Athenians' burning of Sardis is to ignore the complexities of ancient warfare.

The selective rereading of ancient history by this western diplomat is more than focusing on the discovery of historical truth, it is a strategic tool for identity building, justifying the increase in military budgets and reorganizing power relations in the contemporary geopolitical arena.

We must enter into important discussions in criticizing the opinions of this historian. The Iran-Greece wars in the fifth century BC (499 to 449 BC) are one of the most sensitive and decisive moments in ancient history. However, for more than twenty-five centuries, the narrative of these wars relied almost entirely on the writings of Greek historians, especially Plutarch, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. This monopoly in sources caused western historiography to present legendary, one-sided and ideologically biased narratives of these events for many centuries. A historiography which, of course, has been seriously doubted by history researchers