Qutb-ud-din-Aibak
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You obviously have very limited knowledge about Iran or the West Asian military dynamic in general. We are topographically unenterable from the heavily mountainous north and northwest. This advantage is the reason that out of ~2800 years old history as a nation starting from the Medes empire, Iran as an entity has been a free nation for around 85 % of its history with the least amount of time under foreign/unrelated blood rule (I can do the math for you if want), compare that to other steppe or plains dwelling groups around us who could not defend easily against invaders on plainer fields. This topographical advantage works for us even today to the point that our North and Northwest is as secure as it gets, no one is going to roll us over with their armored columns on that topography. Then comes the western border. Iraqi and Syrian land is our buffer zone guarded by our staunch allied Governments and their militaries supported by our proxy forces so the western border is as secure as it gets. US is no longer operating from its Af-Pak bases like it used to do for years so east and southeast is secure too. So who will "invade us" and more importantly from where?
That leaves the Israeli-Saudi-UAE nexus. If they risk escalation with Iran, bad bad things will happen to their militaries and economies. That becomes a military discussion (that I can have in a separate thread another time) like who has larger missiles and more oil earned billions to throw in war. There is a reason that our staunch enemies who want to see us down do nothing against us other than lip service and media antics. They know these things better than you trust me.
I am not sure if you are being serious..
Also last time you said that Ghorids, Ghazanvids, khwarezmian empire, Samanid empire, Ilkhanate, Timurid and Seljuqs were local? I didn't want to answer you because I thought you were trolling.. Majority of them were Oghuz, Ubzeks, Kazakhs and Mongols while the Samanid was the only local one because they are Tajik which is an eastern iranic group. Then there is the Rashidun, Ummayyid and Abbasid eras.
I would say upwards to 1000 years Iran has been with foreigners.
There is no political incentive to invade you currently believe me and if it were you won't be able to stop it because it is about scale which you don't have. They have massives alliances and groups but you don't.. WW3 will be a war of major alliances. Lone wolfs will be the first to go.. But there is no political incentive.
But you have every right in believing in yourself and I see no crime in that
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