Defeating in Qadissya, made Yazdgerd III to move back to the middle of Iran, mainly in Isfahan. He spend some months there but had to go further to regain power with the help of some states under Iran's influence. At that time ruler of Tabarestan, located in north of Iran, invited him to go there. Yazdgerd didn't take his advice and instead of going and sheltering onto Alburz Mountains, which has been a very strong barrier against any enemy, he went to far east, where there is plain and mainly desert. Here's what if he could do by going to Tabarestan, specially knowing that Tabaris didn't convert to Islam centuries after, and Arabs were unable to conquer that area.
All of this reminds me of political mistakes, what to do, and what not to do. Of course Yazdgerd didn't want to be defeated himself, and we cannot say that he was defeated because of a mere geographical mistake. But if Sassanid had more mercy with people, specially since Khosrau II, if they weren't insisting on their old rituals, if they believed in freedom of religions, like Achaemenids did, I don't think a few thousands of wild Arabs, could ever conquer Iran.
Today, in Iran we have the same situation too. Mir Hossein Mousavi, wasn't an opposition leader, he had been prime minister after the Islamic Revolution twice. He is very religious personally. And it amazes me how they turn him into an oppostion leader.
What if he was elected? Could he not obey the supreme leader? I don't think so. It's just one of those political mistakes that I said before...
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