There are many vague and mysterious tales about Alamut fortress and the
things happened there. On 602 AD, a group of missionaries, who were named the
Assassins, seized Alamut castle on the heights of northern Iran and selected it
as their hideaway and military base. The leader of the Assassins, who named
Hassan e Sabbah, lived in this fortress for 35 years and was known as “The
Mountain Man”. He tried to propagate Ismaili faction and believed that Iran
should have the same level of prosperity as it had before Arabs conquered Iran.
