AHC: Great Power Persia

With a POD after the Safavids take over Iran have them be a great power on the scale of Prussia up until modern day.
 
It is really hard but Ottoman screw certainly opens up Persia's chances. Have you read Land Of The Aryans, an Internet fanfic. I think it's rather implausible but a scource of influence nonetheless:).
 
It is really hard but Ottoman screw certainly opens up Persia's chances. Have you read Land Of The Aryans, an Internet fanfic. I think it's rather implausible but a scource of influence nonetheless:).

Mind sending me a link? Because 90% of what I found was racist dribble mixed with less racist stuff but still not what you described.
 
Safavid Persia is pretty much stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one side, the Ottoman Empire. On the other, Mughal India. Yet they could still be a great power if the other two continue to gain power methinks, because it could claim to be the cultural leader of the Gunpowder Empires.
 
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