This Day in History (07-02-1398)
1389 solar years ago, on this day in 630 AD, 9-year old Ardashir III, Iran’s 24th Sassanid Emperor, was killed by General Shahrbaraz, after an 18-month reign. He was enthroned as a boy of 7 years on the suspicious death of his father, Shirawaiyh Qobad II, the killer and successor of his own father, Khosrow II and some thirty of his own brothers. Of Parthian stock, Shahrbaraz , as the victorious general of the Sassanid-Byzantine wars, had conquered Syria, Egypt, and Anatolia, right up to the wall
