"Even the Mongols didn't shut down the Silk Road."
That single line is the heaviest moment of this conversation.
The argument is blunt: not the Arab conquest 1,400 years ago, not the Mongol invasion, not any of the armies that ever stormed Iran — none of them destroyed Iran's geopolitical position. When the Mongols took power, they realized that keeping the Silk Road open meant profit from trade with China. So they kept it open.
Today is different:
Every natural advantage this land was given,
every relative advantage our ancestors left behind,
squandered.
Iran's geopolitical position survived every era in history — until now.
Do you think this historical comparison holds up? Tell us in the comments.
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