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The great Persian serpent lies in wait |
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Let us face his army of immortals |
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We shall butcher those hunters of men's souls |
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and crush their nimbus of immortality |
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An anabis against the son of Darius |
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whose slave-army arrived on the beaches of Thermopylae |
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To extort earth and water |
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and treat us with perversity and death |
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Wretched is their Persian culture of shame and triviality |
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We shall never bow for the self-proclaimed Demigod |
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Let us butcher the legions of slaves and sorcerers |
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Wave after wave will shatter on our shields |
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Their steps slower, their breaths quicker |
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Detracted their morale, pile the dead high! |
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Our spears and swords shall pierce their armour |
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Cut their carotids! Break their spirits! |
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Down with the God-King Xerxes |
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A beast is approaching us |
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Its magnitude will blot out the son |
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We shall drink Persian blood |
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And find our glory in the final arrow hail |
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We blaspheme the tyrant |
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Earth and water |
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Under the banner of Hercules |
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For the eternal glory of Sparta |
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Death to the Persian invaders! |
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"300 is a United States attempt to humiliate Iran in order to compensate for its wrongdoings in order to provoke American soldiers and warmongers." |
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(Javad Shamghadri, cultural adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) |
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"300 is serving the policy of the US leadership and predicted it will prompt a wave of protest in the world... Iranians living in the U.S. and Europe will not be indifferent about this obvious insult." |
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(Hamshahri - Iran's biggest circulation newspaper) |
