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It is believed that dawn mammals originated in the Mesopotamian or Persian peninsula. 62:1.3
Andite migration to Iran began in ancient times, with descendants later moving into India and Turkestan. 78:6.3 79:1.1
The barbarians of Iran raided the Euphrates and Tigris valleys, driving forth the last waves of culture that spread out over Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa. 78:8.3-5
The overpopulation in 15,000 B.C. in Iran led to an extensive Andite movement towards India. 79:2.4
Iranian Andites, descendants of Sethite priests, invaded Europe alongside Andites from Iran over a thousand years, splitting around the Caspian and Black seas to penetrate Europe through the Balkans and Ukraine. 80:9.6
The aridity of Iran forced Andites to invent new methods, exemplifying how natural circumstances shape the evolution of culture. 81:6.3
Persians freed Jews from Babylonian captivity only for them to fall into bondage to their own priest-ridden code of laws, sacrifices, and rituals. 97:10.2
The remnant of the blue race left in old Persia later amalgamated with others, creating the modern nomadic tribes of Arabs. 64:7.11

In Persia, fire reverence long persisted as a symbol of purifying and purging spirits. 85:4.4
Iran played a crucial role in shaping the influence of Christianity, blending Jewish, Greek, and Persian ideas to build a progressive society grounded in the teachings of Jesus and Paul. (170:5.3,16)
The kingdom of heaven concepts from Persian teachings and Jewish apocalyptic beliefs were appropriated by Jesus in establishing a divine kingdom based on the triumph of good over evil. 170:1.6-10
Mithraism arose in Iran, influencing later Christianity through the absorption of Zoroaster's teachings. 98:4.2-8 98:5.2
The Salem doctrines in Iran were nearly extinguished, but Zoroaster revived the smoldering embers with a new religion that spread by the sword. 95:6
The Chaldeans put sun worship in the center of their universe. 85:5.2
The triad gods of ancient civilizations reflected natural associations in human experience. 104:0.3
Zoroastrianism, founded in Persia, incorporated teachings from Melchizedek missionaries about the one God. 131:5.1

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

Moses' farewell oration 97:10.2 — Dt 32:1-43.
Fire reverence 85:4.4 — 2 Ki 16:3; 2 Ch 33:6; 2 Macc 1:18-22; Lv 18:21; Jer 32:35; Ezk 16:21.
Fire reverence (Hanuka) 85:4.4 — 1 Macc 4:52-59.

Iran is linked in 14 paragraphs of the text.