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Onset and Evolution of the Imperial Sassanid Twelver's Shiite Conspiracy Onset and Evolution of the Imperial Sassanid- Twelver’s Shiite Conspiracy • This Presentation is a summary of our of the motives of criminals and benefactors from the assassinations of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Al Rashidun Caliphs following the conquest of the Persian Zoroastrian Sassanid Empire and capture of members of their Imperial family in 642 AD by the Muslim Army of the 2nd Caliph Umar ibn Al Khattab (RA). • Our review revealed an evolving conspiracy that began by the assassination of the 2nd Al Rashidun Caliph Umar ibn Al Khattab (RA) by the Persian Abu Lu’lu’ah, up to present-day “Taqiyya” of Twelver’s Shiite Sect as advocated by the expansionist Faqeeh Empire of Iran. • The assassination of Umar ibn Al Khattab (RA) was planned by Hormizd VI (Al-Hurmuzan) the Vizier of the Sassanid ex-Empress Purandukht, and executed by the Persian Abu Lu’lu’ah (Piruz Nahawandi a Zoroastrian ex-Sassanid Imperial Guard, and one of the conspirators). • The list of benefactors from the assassination of Caliphs Umar and 'Uthman (RA) includes ex-Empresses Purandukht and Azarmidokht (daughters of Persian Emperor Khosrau II). 2 • The initial conspiracy evolved over the years from assassination of the Muslim Arab Caliphs to conquering Muslims by Persian Twelver's Shiite Sect in the name of “Al Mahdi”: 1. Assassinating the 2nd Caliph and reviving the Zoroastrian Sassanid Persian Empire. 2. Taking over of Al-Rashidun Caliphate by reconstituting the Imperial Sassanid-Imams bloodline by the two captive Empresses. 3. Inventing the immortal “Al Mahdi” for the Twelver’s Shiite Cult following the “death?” of the 12th Imperial- Imam in 874 AD. 4. Present-day Al Mahdi’s Deputy-in-Occultation Ayatollah Khamenei, the “Faqeeh” of the Republic of Iran. • Evolution of the Persian Imperial Sassanid conspiracy can be divided into 9 stages before and 7 stages after the “death” of the 11th Imperial Sassanid “Shiite” Imam in 874 AD, and the invention of the 12th “Al Mahdi” Imam (Slide 4). This abridged presentation is addressing main events up to current Twelver’s Shiite Cult and Persian Faqeeh Empire. 3 1. Onset and Evolution of Sassanid Conspiracy I. 642-644 AD: Assassinate Caliph, destabilize Muslim Caliphate Empire and revive the Zoroastrian Persian Sassanid Empire under fugitive Emperor Yazdegerd III. II. 644-656 AD: Takeover plan of Al-Rashidun Islamic Caliphate Empire, (Death of Yazdegerd). III. 656-661 AD: Takeover of Al-Rashidun Caliphate Empire in-progress, (Murder of ‘Uthman (RA)). IV. 661-680 AD: Takeover of Islamic Caliphate Empire delayed, (Ali (RA) Murdered & Muawia is Caliph) V. 680 Ad: Takeover of Al-Rashidun-Umayyad Trans-Caliphate Empire failed, (Battle of Karbala). VI. 680-750 AD: Imperial Sassanid “Imams” bloodline generated by the birth of Jaa’far Sadiq (RA). VII. 750-833 AD: Umayyad Islamic Empire destroyed by Pro-Imperial Sassanid-Alawits “Imams” Abbasid Empire established (Al-Barmakides, Al-Kadhim and Al-Rida (RA)). VIII. 750-790 AD: The rise and fall of the Barmakides. IX. 833-874 AD: Pro-Imperial Sassanid “Imams” Abbasid rule ends, Imperial Sassanid “Imams” Blood-line dies, and the “Twelver’s” “Al-Mahdi” myth invented, (Death of Child 12th Imam) X. 874-1099 AD: Establishment of Shiite Al-Buyid Sultanate (934-1062 AD) in Iran and Iraq and Fatimid Sultanate (874-1099 AD) in Egypt and North Africa. XI. 1099-1250 AD: Crusaders invasion, Shiite during their expulsion by Salahaddin (RA) XII. 1250-1258 AD: A follower of Twelver’s Shiite Sect helps Mongol to occupy and destroy Baghdad and Abbasid Muslim Empire, (Al-Alqami). XIII. 1261-1517 AD: North African Fatimid Shiite ruled North Iraq. XIV. 1501-1736 AD: Twelver’s Shiite Safavid occupy Iraq. ( Ejected by Othman’s who ruled Iraq until 1919 AD). XV. 1924-1979 AD: Pahlavi Persian Empire annexes Ahwaz and Arabian Gulf Islands. XVI. 1979 AD-: Neo-Persian Faqeeh Twelver’s Empire created. Ahwaz, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen subjugated. Next: Expand Persian Empire until Time Ends. 2. Discussion 3. Conclusions 4. Recommendations 4 1. Onset & Evolution of the Sassanid Conspiracy I. 642-644 AD: Assassinate Caliph, destabilize Muslim Caliphate Empire and revive Zoroastrian Persian Sassanid Empire under fugitive Emperor Yazdegerd III. • The plan of the Imperial Zoroastrian Sassanid conspiracy was hatched when the two daughters of the dead Persian Sassanid Emperor Khosrau II, brought as POWs to the 2nd Al-Rashidun Caliph Umar ibn Al-Khattab (RA) in Medina. • Both daughters were historically acknowledged Empresses during the final decade of the Zoroastrian Sassanid Empire. Their Nephew Yazdegerd III was the Sassanid Emperor at the time of Islamic conquest. He avoided capture and remained fugitive for few years. • Instead of marrying Purandukht to merge the two empires and pacify conquered Persian nation as expected, Umar (RA) gave (as concubines) the youngest daughter ex-Empress Azarmidokht to the 11 years old Muhammad ibn Abu Baker Al-Siddique (RA) and the eldest daughter ex-Empress Purandukht to the 16 years old Hussain ibn Ali (RA) the youngest maternal grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) by his daughter Fatima (RA). • This was a fatal underestimation of their cunning; for Umar Al Farooq (RA) practically gave his venomous enemy (ex-Empress Purandukht daughter of Emperor Khosrau II and relative of the escapee Emperor Yazdegerd III) the 16 years old orphan to raise him as she desires. 5 V. 680 AD: Takeover of Al-Rashidun-Umayyad Trans-Empire failed, (Battle of Karbala). • After the assassinations or Al-Rashidun Caliphs Umar, 'Uthman and Ali (RA) and abdication of the 5th Al-Rashidun Caliph Hassan ibn Ali (RA), Muawia’s (RA) became the acknowledged Caliph. Before his death in 680 AD, he nominated his son Yazid as the 2nd Umayyad Caliph. • Hussain ibn Ali (RA) the master of ex-Empress Purandukht and the only living son of the 4th Caliph received numerous letters from Persian-Iraqi Zoroastrian new-/pseudo-converts to Islam offering their support in deposing Yazid and setting him as 6th Al-Rashidun Caliph. • Hussain ibn Ali (RA) travelled from Medina (in Saudi Arabia) to Kufa (in Iraq) with all his family (except the Ex-Empress of Persia and her son Ali (Zain al Abedin)) in order to topple Yazid and be inaugurates as the 7th Al-Rashidun Caliph. Alas, Hussain (RA) was deceived by his Persian-Iraqi pseudo-Muslim pen pals, and he was martyred with most of his family, brothers and companions in the Battle of Karbala by the superior Yazid Army in 680 AD. • No one knows how genuine was the conversion to Islam of the two Persian Zoroastrian Empresses, or if they remained as Zoroastrians. What is known is that Hassan ibn Ali (RA) did not announce his marriage to Purandukht and he probably kept her as concubine. • A clue to the Imperial Persian cunning of Purandukht appeared when I asked a Shiite friend, “If Hussain (RA) took all his family and tribe with him to Iraq, then how come that Ali (Zain Al- Abedin) and his mother the ex-Empress of Persia survived the Battle of Karbala?” • He answered “the child was sick, and left behind with his mother in Medina”. Another explanation: “the child was there, but Zainab (RA) saved him from execution in Damascus6 . Chart 1 is the published Twelver's Shiite Emams Family Tree. It does not explain why the Imams line was confined to the descendants of the concubine (Purandokht daughter Emperor Khosrau) and why the lines of all other descendants of Hassan and Hussain (RA) ignored. Notice that there is no daughter of Hassan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib called “Um Abdullah”, which this family tree claims that Ali Zain Al-Abedin ibn Hussain Ibn Ali (RA) has married. According to our research Ali (Zain Al-Abedin) was 23 years old married “Child” with a child son of his own at the time of Hussain’s (RA) death in Karbala (see the chronology in chart 2 in the next slide). 7 According to our research; the 6th , 7th ,8th , 9th ,10th and 11th Imams were the bloodline descendants of Sassanid Emperor Khosrau II. They are not direct descendents of Ali ibn Abi Talib, nor Fatmah (RA) the Empress Azarmidokht given to 11 years old Muhammad Ibn Abu Bakr in 642 AD Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh). (Zain Al Abedin probably conceived when 3rd (See Family Tree of the 11 Caliph Othman (RA) was ?being killed in 656 AD) Shiite Imams in Chart 2). Purandokht ? 8 IX. 833-874 AD: Pro-Imperial Sassanid “Imams” Abbasid rule ends, Imperial Sassanid “Imams” Blood-line dies, and the “Twelver’s” “Al-Mahdi” myth invented, (Death? of infant 12th Imam) • Chart 2 illustrates the reason for selecting the 4th to 11th Twelver’s Shiite Imams which is because they carried the Imperial Sassanid's bloodline. Non-Sassanid descendants of Hussain (RA) or Hassan ibn Ali (RA) are called “Sayed” or “Shareef” by Twelver Shiites, and cannot become Twelver's Imams. • The 874 AD death in a Abbasid military camp of the 11th Imam terminated the Imperial Sassanid Khosrau II blood-line, and ruined Twelver’s takeover plan of Abbasid Caliphate. • However, to keep the life style which Imperial Sassanid bloodline Agents grew accustomed to by claiming “Khums” (1/5th of annual earnings of Twelver’s Shiite followers) and to finance the underground Zoroastrian-like Persian Twelver’s Shiite Sect, Agents of the 11th Imam claimed the discovery of a child 12th Imam born to the 11th Imam earlier in 869 AD. • Soon after the death of the 11th Imam in 874 AD, one of his Agents claimed that the [Unborn or 4-5 years old Dead] 12th Imam revealed to him in a letter of his intention to disappear in Occultation [Ghaeba].
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