Iranians were the pioneers of Time. Astrology was invented in Iran. Some serious astrology has been done by Iranians, with extraordinary results. Like everything, Iranians have been victims of their own doings.
I have read elsewhere on this site, and I will add it here as well, but with the astrological angle as it were. You all know the stories about the Magi and Christ. Obviously the Iranians used the major astrological alignment to see whether Christ really was the holy men as fortold in the old scripts. Then you have the great eclipse that was passing over Mecca and Salman Parsi teaching Halabi Koreishi (aka Mohammed) to attack and claim a miracle. These events are not miracles, but astrology.
There is a lot more.