Dec 29

The reforms of Purandokht, the then Queen of Iran and signing the peace treaty with Rome

This piece of history will be completely edited later           Purandokht Coin Purandokht, the Sassanid Emperor, who had pursued fresh internal and foreign policy, in order to save the Iranian Empire and buy time to make internal corrective reforms, signed a new peace treaty with East Rome government on 25 December AD 630 (according to some historians 29 December).     Purandokht (the daughter of Khosrow Parviz), one of the two queens that ruled over Iran, knew that the people were deeply unhappy with social class differences imposed upon them, the judges did not observe justice, state governors created new authority for themselves and had even minted coins. It was to solve these problems that Purandokht signed the peace treaty with East Rome (Byzantine) and ordered the judiciary force to implement justice, exempted overdue taxes, nullified the privileges due to class superiority and extra authorities of the governors and minted a single federated coin.     As European historians have written, Purandokht, who was a wise ruler, had predicted the Arabs’ attack from Hejaz to Iran territory and had advised the commanders to put aside internal differences and unite together to prepare for confrontation. She designated Rustam Farokhzad as the army commander. By then the Arabs had gained control over the whole of the Arabian Peninsula. Despite all these corrective decisions the kingdom of Purandokht, like the other successors of Khosrow Parviz, was a weak government and internal conflicts over power continued in Ctesiphon, and . . . .          Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour (AmordadNews writer)