Khosru III of Parthia

Shahanshah Khosru Ardakhshar Narseh Sassani

Sucession	73rd Shahanshah of Parthia
Reign:	30th July, 1979 - Present
Predecessor:	Shahanshah Ardeshir XI
Successor:	Crown Prince Piruz Rostam Sassani
Birthdate	28th February, 1947
Place of Birth:	Tehran, Parthia
Marriages	Shahbanu Farah Suren Pahlav (Deceased), 365 Concubines
Languages spoken	Persian, English, Azeri, Tajik, Kurdish, Avestan, French, Italian, German, Hindi

Shah Khosru Ardakhshar Narseh Sassani February 28, 1947 – present, styled His Imperial Majesty, Shahanshah Aryamehr Mazdayasni (King of Kings, Light of the Aryans, Worshipper of Ahura Mazda), is the current Shah of Persia.

Youth, Education, and Family Background

Khosru Sassani was born in Tehran, Parthia, to Ardeshir XI, the Shah between 1950 and 1979, and Anahita Sardarizadeh, Ardeshir's first wife. Khosru was educated at the Persepolis Academy for his primary and high schooling, before attending Oxford in Britain.

Before the ascension of Khosru, his father had been rebuilding Parthia from a constitutional monarchy, established by revolution in 1906, into an absolute monarchy headed by the Shah. To solidify his authority and build support amongst the nobles and buisness owners, he married into the Sardarizadeh, Teymorian, and Suren-Pahlav noble families. He made Parthia an absolute capitalist state, banned elections for anything, and established SAVAK to crush dissent, though, always by secretive means to avoid making a spectacle. Ardeshir modernized the army, which helped pave the way for his son's power when he died and left the crown to him in 1979.

Reign of Shah Khosru

Coronation

On the death of his father, the Shah mourned for a month, leaving the country under the command of his brother-in-law Bijan Suren-Pahlav before finally commencing with the coronation. The ceremony itself set the stage for the Shah's personal life, ostentation and pomp. He took the titles Shahanshah and Aryamehr during the ceremony, though still is referred to simply as Shah. Though, what followed the ceremony was an unheard of celebration in terms of cost, a dinner was set which included serving each of the thousand guests an ounce of caviar and 24 courses of food, including rice cooked with tiny gemstones designed to be consumed. The total cost was over $170 million.

Consolidation of power

The Shah continued the steps of his father, building up the military to immense levels, reformatting it to make it one of the most professional fighting forces known to man. However, the increasing cost of the royal court prompted rioting by many ethnic minorities, especially the Azeris and Balochis. The Kurds remained loyal, which has made the Shah their devoted friend to this day. In response, military troops were called in, IFVs and tanks ran down protestors and rioters while attack helicopters strafed them from the skies. Tabriz was smoking from fires for days after the riot. The death toll was covered up, but estimates place it at over 10,000. To prevent further riots by oftentimes Communist and leftist sympathizers, the powers of SAVAK were increased dramatically. Whole families of vocal and suspected Communists disappeared at night, with all records of them erased. Though reports of such things are highly classified, it is estimated that over a hundred thousand people have been killed by SAVAK.

On December 3rd, 1983, with the riots in full swing, Saddam Hussein declared war on Parthia, demanding Iraq be given possession of the Shaat al-Arab. Hussein assumed the Parthian regime would crumble, but he was in fact, going to become a victim of the new military. The riots had been crushed quickly, and within days, overwhelming numbers of Parthian soldiers were moved to the Iraqi border, pouring into Kurdistan and towards Basra. The Iraqis resisted, but when their armies began to fall apart under the combined arms tactics the Shah used, they resorted to using blister agents on the advancing Parthians. Thousands of Parthian soldiers died and the assault faltered, but the Iraqis were unaware of the Parthian arsenals of their own WMDs. On December 17th, The Parthians opened fire across Iraqi lines with a barrage of VX weapons, killing thousands and wiping out much of the Iraqi army stationed near Basra. In revenge for the gassing of the Parthians, the victorious army descended on Basra, razing the city and enslaving the population, an act which brought widespread condemnation. In Kurdistan, Parthian soldiers and Kurdish allies moved rapidly on Baghdad, but were again attacked by a barrage of most of the Iraqi chemical arsenal. A barrage of 45 SCUD missiles were also used on Persepolis, though most were shot down, one crashed into a busy mall, killing 242. The Shah acted quickly, a combined sortie on January 1st, 1984 was sent against both the Iraqi army and Baghdad. The Iraqi army, stationed between the Tigris and Euphrates north of Tikrit was suprised when three planes spread over 50 miles each dropped a single weapon, each unleahsing a tactical nuclear device. The recent benefit from Ardeshir's nuclear program destroyed the Iraqi army. In Baghdad, the entire Parthian bomber force unleashed thousands of tons of napalm and incindiaries, setting the city alight with flame and killing much of the population. On January 3rd, Parthian soldiers entered the ruins, and exterminated the rest of the population, an act done against every Arab in Iraq, with their property being sold and the money given to the Kurds.

International controversy

The Shah is an extraordinarily controversial figure in world politics, with many, especially Socialists and Communists, absolutley hating what some have described as a Post-Medieval potentate who amuses himself by murdering Leftists, Shoobans, and anyone else he feels like at the moment. To Rightists, the Shah is looked at with respect, for his unflinching devotion to Capitalism and individual freedom to act in non-political ways, as well as his consistent support of Rightist governments and revolutions in other countries, but even most of them criticize his brutality in dealing with political opponents, an ever present cult of personality, muzzling the press, and a consistent ban on all elections, even informal ones.

Both sides carry some truth. The Shah is in fact, one of the most brutal oppressors of Shoobans known to the world, unflinchingly murdering them in hunts, and forcing the natives of his territory in Shooboshaaba to work consistently in a Belgian Congo type of labor system, with all of the products going to him and his other corporate investors who were involved in funding the war against Shoobooshaaba. Other than Shoobans, he is known to have started several Imperialistic wars for the purpose of creating other 'personal estates,' effectivley, country-sized estates made for the personal betterment of the Shah, who uses the profits to support a massive, bloated court, buy enough luxury items to put even members of the House of Saud to shame, and fund his military.

His military campaigns betray one of his greater problems with international relations: an obsessive desire to utilize chemical weapons, especially on undefended civilian targets for the purpose of breaking morale. His other tactics, including the firebombing of cities, use of defoliants on crops to cause famine, and wholesale pillage and slaughter, further effect his image.

At home in Parthia, the Shah is almost universally a revered or extraordinarily respected figure, who is supported by a cult of personality that paints the Shah as the greatest Shah of Iran since Cyrus the Great. However, the former Parthian left, once numbering 10,000,000 people during the late period of the reign of Shah Ardeshir XI, is virtually dead, if not totally extinct. Shah Khosru, who brutally murdered the leftists, their families, publishers of media considered leftist, and burned and banned virtually all books which spoke positivley of leftist ideas, has in fact, driven the Parthian political scale from right to far right, with an average political compass score moving from 6.5, 2.3 in 1979 to 8.1, 2.54 in 2005. Under such a political climate, the Shah is considered an excellent leader and highly respectable virtually unanimously by Parthians.

Trivia

• The Shah is a widower. His wife, the Shahbanu, was assassinated in 1996. He now keeps a harem of 365 concubines (one for every day of the year).

• He is 6' and 160 lb.

• His hobbies include horseback riding and horseback archery, shooting, hunting with guns or on horseback, polo, driving, feasting, partying, drinking heavily, tobacco, chess, fencing, executions

• His blood type is type A

• The Shah lives perhaps one of the most luxurious lives of any world leader. He has a collection of nearly 340 cars, including several cars otherwise considered only concepts, which he offered large amounts of money to produce for his use, such as a Maybach Exelero he paid about $8.1 million for.
• His palace of Persepolis is guarded by 10,000 soldiers and his needs are served by 8500 servants. His palace at Persepolis and the smaller Rasht palace have a combined total of 200 horses the Shah uses. Most nights, he likes to drink, and biweekly, he throws a party for several hundred nobles. These feasts often include 24 course meals, brought out all at once to each of the guests to eat what they choose while the rest is thrown away. Some dishes are very expensive, including mounds of caviar from the Caspian or even saffron rice with tiny gemstones sprinked in.

• The crown jewels of Parthia are worth nearly 190 billion, which include 150 distinct crowns and thousands of other pieces. *The Shah's family has ruled Iran for 1800 years, passed through the same family from generation to generation.