Robert Wright notes in his 2005 publication on the subject matter that in addition to its role in the birth of America and its Constitution, Philadelphia was also the birthplace to American finance… Chestnut Street in Philadelphia was America’s “First Wall Street” before the center of finance shifted to New York by the late 1820’s…

In his 1884 book about the history of Philadelphia, J. Thomas Scharf writes that as early as 1750, at the corner of Front and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia there was a tavern named “Kouli Khan”…

Scharf notes that the tavern was named after “Thamas Kouli Khan [] a Persian partisan of great valor, who drove away the Afghans from his country, and defeated the Turkish invaders. His prowess was rewarded by the crown of Persia. The fame of the victorious patriot and monarch became world-wide...”

… a tavern in the midst of the who’s who of early America… Kouli Khan is of course the famous Nader Shah of Iran (1688-1747)… it’s time for another Iranian Nader Shah to rise and take back Iran with support from its people…

[pic source University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of English:  “Downtown Philadelphia, circa 1760 (Delaware river is due East on this map)”… for educational purposes only]