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(Yay, the annoying user obsessed with late antiquity Iran asking for seemingly random events in Iranian history is back!)

I'm planning to write a TL here, which would be my first in AH.com, dealing with late antiquity Persia (hence the questions) for a while, and I've been wondering about Bahram Chobin for a while. Bahram Chobin, in a quick rundown, was a general from the House of Mihran (one of the seven Parthian clans) in Ray who was one of Hormizd IV's chief generals, was offended by him after a mild failure, was humilliated and then rebelled, crowned himself king and ruled for a year before Khosrau II came from Byzantium with an army lent to him by Maurice. This ended the Sassanid-Byzantine War of the 570-590 and would lead to the 602-628 one. It seems that Bahram was trying to tie in Zoroastrianism to the fall of the Sassanids, as well as was very east-focused.

But is it possible to, say, have Khosrau flee to China or the Göktürks instead, and Bahram remaining on the throne in Ctesiphon for longer (or his whole lifetime)?
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