The attempt to revise Iran’s history is not a new initiative by those who are mainly Islamic Republic regime’s direct or indirect supporters. Several days ago, I had a post regarding a few specific aspects of Iran’s history and in reply to another blogger - Are Iranians Obsessed with Aryanism. In addition, in March I wrote about - Iran’s Languages, Religions and Ethnic Groups - please note that latter post was recently updated in order to provide further information in connection with “Persian Language” & “Zoroastrian Dari”.
Further to the above mentioned entries, Aryamehr has just published a related piece which I would like to bring to your attention. I consider it enormously important that: (1) we expose those who actively embark on revising Iran’s history and provide either grossly incorrect and/or misleading information, which can potentially result in confusing both Iranians and non-Iranians. (2) we dispell some myths and inaccuracies about Iran’s history and set the record straight.
Aryamehr in his most recent entry - June 21, 2007 - writes: “Historical revisionists pertaining to Iranian affaires are on the rise.
The revisionists are targetting the Iranian identity, culture, and history. This is not limited to just revisionist history in regards to the Pahlavi Dynasty which have been exposed to some extent previously on this site but goes also back thousands of years back to the times of Cyrus the Great and the Persian Empire before the forceful imposition of Islam.
Today I received a very disturbing report by acclaimed Iranian historian Dr Kaveh Farrokh which dealt with this topic. Re-writing history to produce a false outcome that fits ones political and social agenda is a great threat which the Iranian Nation is having to deal with in light of Islamists trying to eradicate any pre-Islamic links of the Iranian people - notably this campaign is not only one that is taking place in textual form but also through actions such as the current dam construction in Iran by the occupational Islamic Republic which has destroyed countless numbers of historical Iranian cultural heritage sites - with the most recent example that comes to my mind being the opening of the Sivand Dam which lies in close proximity to Pasargard and somewhat further from the ancient capital of the Empire - Persepolis; both sites are said to be at possible risk of harm by the dam.”
I urge you to read the full post, which includes an email from Dr. Kaveh Farrokh, please visit - Warning for Historical Revisionists
[...] He also writes about the perils of historial revisionists, not only about recent times, but back to Cyrus the Great. Read it all also. [...]