"Perhaps I shall survive, perhaps not. I have been known as the commander. Wherever I am present or am mentioned, I am the king."
— Babak Khorramdin

January 1, 1970

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Babak Khorramdin's letter to his son, rejecting the caliph’s amnesty message, quoted by Al-Tabari, cited in "BĀBAK ḴORRAMI" at Encyclopaedia Iranica