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The 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire, officially known as the 2,500th Year of the Foundation of the Imperial State of Iran, was a national event in Iran that consisted of an elaborate set of grand festivities and took place from 12–16 October 1971 to celebrate the founding of the ancient Achaemenid Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great.[1][2] The intent of the celebration was to highlight Iran's ancient civilization and history as well as to showcase its contemporary advances under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.[3] The celebrations highlighted Iran's Aryan roots and pre-Islamic while promoting Cyrus the Great as a national hero.[4]
Some later historians came to believe that this massive celebration contributed to events that ultimately culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, although this claim has been described as dramatized with the extravagance being exaggerated by revolutionaries.[5] The event costs and luxury has been subject to many inflated historian and journalist accounts as a result. The revolution was led by Ruhollah Khomeini, an Ayatollah who garnered support from the Iranian people, various leftist and Islamist organizations,[6] and student movements to overthrow the Shah and establish the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, for which he served as Supreme Leader from 1979 to 1989.