"One day our nation will be free and this day is not that far away. Culture is always victorious against injustice and oppression. Iran's culture has been victorious for thousands of years, even defeating Ghenghis the Mongol. Who are these people to stand against it?"

—Fereydun Farrokhzad (1938-1992), Iranian writer, actor and poet.

—The stela bears an inscription in Arsacid Pahlavi which reads as follows;

Transliteration: 'rtbnw MLKYN MLK' BRY wlgšy MLKYN MLK' BNYt hnsk ZK ZY hwsk šwš hštrap ŠNT iii c xx xx xx i YRH' spndrmty YWM' mtry.

Transcription: Ardaβān šāhān šah puhr Wālaγš šāhān šah dišt hansag ēd čē Xwāsag Šūš šahrab sarδ 461 māh Spandarmad rōž Mihr.

Translation: Shahanshah Ardavan, son of Shahanshah Walaxsh, made this stela of Khwasak, satrap of Susa, Year 461 [AG], day of Mehr.

The words typed in caps are a "Hozwarĭšn" (Archaism), words written in Aramic but must be read as their Pahlavi/Parsig translated words instead of their written form.

So instead of reading the Aramic phrase MLKYN MLK' as written, one reads it as "šāhān šah". The closest modern example of this practice I can present is how LBS, short for latin Libra, is pronounced as "Pounds" by English speakers.

Relief depicting two Magi, holding barsom bundles, sacrifice a bull and a sheep on an altar. From Dascylium, Anatolia.

ca. 540-330 bc.

—A "barsom" is a ritual implement used by the Magi to solemnize certain sacred ceremonies.
The barsom has no practical use, but is a token of symbolizing vegetal creation, and the presence of Amertat ("Immortality"), one of the "Amesha Spenta", the emanations of the wise lord, Ahuramazda, at the ceremony.

"The worst king is whom the innocent fear and the guilty are safe from his policies."

—Ardashir Babakan, "Ahd-e Ardeshir" ("Ardeshir's Covenant").

"Philosophy, a thing of the highest utility, flourished in antiquity among the barbarians, shedding its light over the nations. And afterwards it came to Greece. First in its ranks were the prophets of the Egyptians; and the Chaldeans among the Assyrians; and the Druids among the Gaul; and the Samanaeans among the Bactrians; and the philosophers of the Celts; and the Magi of the Persians."

—Titus Flavius Clemens (150-215 AD), "Stromata", 1.15.

"The Magi were ignorant of sorcery, says Aristotle in the book on Magic and Dinon in the fifth book of his Histories. He also says 'Zoroaster' when translated literally means 'star-diviner'; In the first book of On Philosophy, Aristotle says the Magi are actually older than the Egyptian philosophers. And according to them there are two principles, a good daimon and a bad daimon: to the former, the name is Jupiter or 'Oromasdes' [Ohrmazd/Ahuramazda], to the other Pluto or 'Arimanius' [Ahriman]."

—Diogenes Laertius (3rd century AD biographer), "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers", 1.6.

"Mysticism is recognition and exploration of the self for finding a path to what lies in one's essence and nature."

—Khalil Alinejad (1957-2001), Kurdish Iranian musician and Sufi Yarsan mystique.

https://youtu.be/mjxCTApdX3Q
Capital of a column from the audience hall of the palace of Darius I, Susa, c. 510 B.C.E., Achaemenid, Tell of the Apadana, Susa, Iran (Louvre).
Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker & Dr. Beth Harris

"On 6 February 1901 the French archaeologist Jacques de Morgan discovered a very rich grave on the Acropolis at Susa. The body was in a plain bronze coffin with a ledge-shaped rim. There
were fallen bricks in the coffin indicating that it had probably been placed in a vaulted tomb. The skeleton was flat on its back and with it was a magnificent collection of jewelry. Two coins
that were minted at Arad on the Syrian coast between 350-332 Be seem to show that the burial
dates from the very end of the Achaemenid period. Illustrated below is a watercolor by Jacques de Morgan showing the coffin burial as discovered at Susa in 1901 (Musee du Louvre)."

—"Forgotten Empire: The World Of Ancient Persia", by J. Curtis & N. Tallis.

"Cyrus The Great In Icelandic Epics, A Literary Study", By Jacob Jönsson, Acta Iranica 1, 1974.

"All the people of Babylon, all the land of Sumer and Akkad, princes and governors, bowed to him and kissed his feet. They rejoiced at his kingship and their faces shone."

—The Cyrus Cylinder, Paragraph 18.

Picture: Sketch of W. S. Vaux of the relief of Cyrus the Great as a winged genius, Pasargadae, Iran.

"In short, God the creator, is the physician, keeper, medic, lord, protector and redeemer of the sheep [=people], not the punisher, deleterious and witherous destroyer of his own creation."

—Šak ud Gumanīg Vizār [="Doubt Removing Report"], A 9th century Zoroastrian theological treatise on other religions, II.4.102.