There have also been a number of attacks directed by pan-Turks against the legacy of Cyrus the Great in Iran. One of these occurred on December 19th by pan-Turk (pan-Turanism) activists in mid to late December 2006. In this incident all books pertaining to Cyrus the Great were deliberately burned:
Pan-Turk activists engaging in book burnings of texts related to Cyrus the Great on December 19 2006. Note that other books being burned are those of Shahnameh, Golestan Sa’adi, Hafez etc. The photo was originally posted on pan-Turkist website www.baybak.com, subsequently reported by Payman Pakmehr of Tabriz News). The photo was then withdrawn by the www.baybek.com website.
Recently one of their weblogs against Cyrus the Great was shut down due to the extreme racist language used in that venue: http://www.kurush.blogfa.com/ .
Another photo of the pan-Turk book burning incident in Tabriz on December 19 2006. Racialists often resort to cultural vandalism and violence in an effort to re-write historical facts.
Destruction of Achaemenid relief by anti-Cyrus vandals at Persepolis, December 6, 2006
(Report on December 23, 2006 by Maryam Tabeshian of CHN; and reported by Payvand news of iran). It is possible that this attack, which happened just 4 days after the Tabriz book-burning, was coordinated or tied with pan-Turks. For more on the Persepolis vandalism case see here.
Pan-Turk writers are also promoting historical revisionism. Most recently (January 15, 2009) pan-Turk activist Haiedeh Torabi took parts of the largely revisionist article by Mathias Schulz in Spiegel Magazine against Cyrus the great (July 15, 2008) to present her own version of revisionist history. Citations are provided selectively in an out of context fashion to construct a misleading point of view.
Pan-Turks burning Persian language books in Tabriz (December 19, 2006) (left) and Nazi fascists (note Brown Shirt member of the SA) burning “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opernplatz on May 10, 1933 (right). Racist ideology resorts to censorship, revisionism, propaganda and even violence in an endeavor to re-write history.
These perspectives are not accepted by mainstream scholarship and have little support by the major authorities in Iranian Studies programs worldwide. Schulz’s Spiegel Magazine article was responded to and its claims were discredited, as was the follow-up article against Cyrus the Great by Harry de Quetteville of the Daily Telegraph on July 21, 2008. The Torabi article is indicative that pan-Turk activists tend to rely on the writings of sensationaiist reporters and persons unfamilair with the historiography of the field.
Below is an article by TabrizNews in Persian on the above incident (for original link click here). Readers are encouraged to consult the articles of Iran Emrozz such as –آتشی بر جان فرهنگ– and –گلستان در آتش-. There are also interesting comments postings on the Balatarin website as well.
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شادماني تجزيه طلبان از به آتش كشيدن شاهنامه فردوسي، ديوان حافظ ، ديوان سعدي و كوروش
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تبريز نيوز:سرويس سياسي:تجزيه طلبان از به آتش كشيدن كتاب هاي شاهنامه فردوسي ، ديوان حافظ ، سعدي ، متون ادب فارسي و نيز كوروش ، توسط اين گروه در مناطق آذري نشين ابراز شادماني كردند.اخيرا عكس هاي متعددي از به آتش كشيده شدن كتاب هاي شاهنامه فردوسي ، ديوان حافظ ، سعدي ، متون ادب فارسي و نيز كوروش توسط تجزيه طلبان در سايت هاي اينترنتي منتشر شده است.
در اين تصاوير آرم و امضا سايت هايي كه از ارگان تجزيه طلبان به شمار مي روند در پشت زمينه و زير هر عكس ديده شده كه ابتدا توسط اين گروه منتشر شده است.
به دنبال چنين اقدامي ، فعالان تجزيه طلب با انتشار مجدد آن از طريق ايميل هاي گروهي اين عمل را ستوده و بر تكرار آن اهتمام مي ورزند.
گفتني است، پس از ناكامي هاي پي در پي تجزيه طلبان در تحريك شهروندان مناطق آذري نشين ، فعاليت هاي افرادي انگشت شمار و مطرود چندي است وارد فاز جديدي شده كه آتش كشيدن كتاب هاي مفاخر ايران و توهين به تاريخ ، فرهنگ و مفاخر ملي ايران از جمله چنين اقداماتي به شمار مي رود.
چنين اقدامي از سوي تجزيه طبان خشم شهروندان آذري زبان در شمال غرب ايران را برانگيخته است.
در اين ميان برخي از گروه ها و فعالان قومي در داخل و خارج از ايران از چنين اقدامي ابراز انزجار كرده اند.
تحليل گران بر اين باورند، دامن زدن به اختلافات قومي و حمايت هاي وسيع و همه جانبه مالي و رسانه اي از تجزيه طلبان در دستور كار برخي از سرويس هاي جاسوسي كشورهاي بيگانه قرار دارد.چنين تلاش هايي در حالي صورت مي گيرد كه تست هاي مكرر “انسجام ملي”، در مناطق آذري نشين “همبستگي ملي” را نشان داده است.
پيشتر يك عضو كميسيون امنيت ملي و سياست خارجه مجلس، گفته بود:دستگاه هاي امنيتي ايران در به بازي گرفتن جاسوسان حوزه قوميت ها (به عنوان جاسوسان دو جانبه) نسبت به تشكيلات جاسوسي بيگانگان دست بالايي دارند.
كارشناسان و تحليل گران تاريخي بر اين باورند كه ، تجربه هاي تاريخي نشان داده است كه شهروندان مناطق آذري نشين از جمله وطن پرست ترين شهروندان ايراني به شمار مي روند.
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