<story><title>The Tomb of Queen Esther in Persia</title><url>http://riowang.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-tomb-of-queen-esther-in-persia.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kweks</author><text>I happened to head through this region last year.
The desert near Isfahan is absolutely mind blowing.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like procedural generation meets the clone stamp tool.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;travel.ninjito.com&amp;#x2F;2014-08-18-Iran&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;travel.ninjito.com&amp;#x2F;2014-08-18-Iran&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Tomb of Queen Esther in Persia</title><url>http://riowang.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-tomb-of-queen-esther-in-persia.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eternalban</author><text>Relations between the two tribes go back at least 3000 years if not earlier. (The city of Rages, then Ray, and now a suburb of Teheran, apparently had a substantial Jewish community during the Median period, per Book of Tobit [2]) Typically quite friendly and simpatico.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tomb_of_Daniel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tomb_of_Daniel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Book_of_Tobit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Book_of_Tobit&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>