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Nasser Pourpirar, (Persian: ناصر پورپیرار) formerly known as Naser Bana-Konanadeh, is an Iranian writer, revisionist historian, Holocaust denier, and conspiracy theorist . He is well known for his controversial theories questioning the reliability of current version of historiography of Iran from Achaemenids to the begining of the Safavid period.
Early life
Pourpirar was born in 1940 in Tehran, Iran. Earlier in his life, Pourpirar was closely involved with the Tudeh Party of Iran (a major Iranian political party with Communist or left tendencies), which had close relations with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After the 1979 Revolution, he joined with the revolutionaries. According to Alireza Nurizadeh, a renowned Iranian journalist based in the UK, Nasser Pourpirar was an interrogator with the Islamic Revolutionary Courts before being known as a "scholar" and "historian".
Iranian history according to Pourpirar
Achaemenid period
Pourpirar's critics begins with the event of Purim, recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. He believes that after the great genocide commited by Jews in Purim, the land of Iran was completely wiped out of human beings until the beginning of Islam
Pourpirar believes that Purim was commited by the Achaemenid King Darius, and says Behistun Inscription indeed can be considered as a symbole of the genocide of pre-Achaemenid indigenous civilised Iranians . He claims that construction of Persepolis was never finished and the Achaemenid dynasty whom he considers as a group of ancient barbarian Slavic invaders ended with Darius the Great, after they returned to their homeland in Eurasian steppes. The rest of the Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid, Seljuqid, and Samanid dynasties according to Pourpirar were fabricated by Zionists as part of an ancient Jewish conspiracy}
According to Pourpirar a few historic sites which are said to be Parthian, are indeed either clearly related to Greeks or are modern forgery. He also believes that historical personalities such as Mazdak, Mani, Zoroaster, Babak, Abu Moslem, Abu Hanifa, and Salman the Persian were also invented by modern Zionist historians.
Regardin reliable archeological items found in Iran he says: Since the time of Purim till the second century of the Islamic era, whatever archeological finds that are discovered throughout the middle east are either before Purim or after the second century of Islam
Regarding reliability of Iranian dynaisties he says:So everyone should know that the builders of the false historical and social lies of the last two thousand years between Purim till the Safavids were the Jews. They wanted to hide their genocide and thus used lies by fabricating history.
Post-Islamic period
Pourpirar believes that most of [[modern Iranians gradually penetrated from sourrounding regions of Iranian plateau to modern Iran during the first centuries of Islam. His reasoning for this claim is that if modern Iranians were continuation of ancient Iranians, then after several millennia of coexistence they had been already assimilated into one ethnic pool. He also believes that differences in regional cultures, musics, dances, etc. of various Iranian ethnic groups who virtually all of them are inhabited in border areas, point to the diverse origins of modern Iranian ethnic groups.
He thinks that Arab tribes are likely descendants of Semitic survivors of Mesopotamia who escpaped to deserts frm Purim incident. The Iranian Arab intellectual Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof quotes Pourpirar as a source for the claim that Arabs are indigenous to Khuzestan and predate the arrival of Aryans . This claim has been used by groups such as the London-based British Ahwazi Friendship Society to claim that Persians conquered Khuzestan province from Arabs in 1925, and that previous to this date, Khuzestan was entirely Arab since ancient times.
Proponents and opponents
Pourpirar's opponents accuse him of being antagonistic towards Persian history and civilisation. Pourpirar has already stated that he does not recognize Persians as a real ethnic group rather than a baseless ethnicity. Many accuse him of being anit-semitic, a charge he does not deny. His methodology and research is also severly criticized for lacking even a semblence of objectivity and scientific inquiery. He is accused of trying to forge a fictitious genocide and blame it on 6th CBC Jews.
His proponents believe that because of his revealing of alleged forgery in Iranian historiography he is a victim of systematic propaganda attacks and pressure, for instance some of his books don't have the permission from Iranian Ministry of culture and Islamic guidance to be published.
Personal views
Regarding the importance of Arabic language for a predominantly Muslim country like Iran, he has stated that: "It is very unfortunate that we can not put the Persian language aside and replace it with the language of Koran. However the future of Iran is at the hand of Islamic Unity. Spreading Arabic language among Iranian youths and incorporating it more seriously into the education system can make a foundation for such Islamic Unity."
Pourpirar has reportedly praised Saddam Hussein and refered to him as the "Great Arab hero" and the "symbol of resistance He is a strong supporter of current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad..
Books
A list of books written by pourpirar expounding his view may be found in Karang Books which is the publishing house he owns. ]
- Twelve centuries of Silence: Achaemenids
- Twelve centuries of Silence: Parthians
- Twelve centuries of Silence: Sassanids Part I
- Twelve centuries of Silence: Sassanids Part II
- Twelve centuries of Silence: Sassanids Part III
- A bridge to the past: Part I
- A bridge to the past: Part II
- A bridge to the past: Part III
Pourpirar also expounds his historic revisionist views in his weblog www.naria.blogfa.com. All his books have been written in Persian.
Responses
The following books have been published in response to Pourpirar's historic revisionism:
- The glorious Millenaries هزاره های پرشکوه by Dariush Ahmadi
- Twelve centuries of splendor دوازده قرن شوه by Amir Limiai and Dariush Ahmadi
- Cyrus and the Bible by Houshang Sadeghi کورش و بابل
- The Veracity of ancient Persian and Arya اعتبار باستان شناختی آریا و پارس by Mohammad *Taqi 'Ataii and Ali Akbar Vahdati
References
- از آن جا که وسعت نسل کشی یهودیان، در ماجرای پلید پوریم، سرزمین ایران راکاملا از سکنه خالی کرده بود، پس از ظهور اسلام، این سرزمین با ورود مهاجرینی از تمام همسایگان و از همه سو، به تدریج دارای کلنی های کوچک انسانی شد که کم ترین پیوند بومی با ایران کهن نداشتند و از مراتب و مناسک و فرهنگ و زبان و پوشش و باورهای پیشین سرزمین های اصلی خویش پیروی کرده اند. در این جا عمده ترین سئوال هویت شناسانه می پرسد کدام یک از مجموعه های زیستی پراکنده در سراسر ایران، در موقعیت های نخستین و کنونی و به چه دلیل و نشانه و تشابه، دنباله ی بومیان ایران کهن اند و چه همخوانی ماهوی در تولید و فرهنگ، میان ساکنان پس از اسلام و اقوام ماقبل پوریم وجود دارد؟ taken from http://www.naria.blogfa.com/85084.aspx
- آقای ایران. منظور من در این مباحث جدید ایران کنونی است و بدانید آن ایران بزرگ که برای زمان هخامنشیان و ساسانیان و اشکانیان ساخته اند، هرگز وجود خارجی نداشته است. ] to pretend that modern Iranians are continuation of indigenous Iranians in order to hide the horrific damages they imposed on those ancient civilisations. }
- 12CentSil{{cite book |last= |authors= Nasser Pourpirar|editor= |others= |title=Twelve Centuries of Silence: Book 1, The Achaemenides |origyear=2002 |format=paperback |accessdate=|year=2002 |publisher=Karang|location=Tehran |language=Persian |pages=page 314}
- آقای یشایایی در آن مذاکره ی دراز مدت تلفنی نیز یادآور شدم که قتل عام مردم و محو تمدن و هستی شرق میانه، در ۲۵۰۰ سال پیش در ماجرای تاریخی پوریم، از نظر مورخ قابل دفاع تر از این دروغ نویسی و جعلیاتی است که مورخین و باستان شناسان یهود در تولیدات تاریخی قرن اخیر آورده اند، و برای پر کردن خلاء دراز مدت هستی در منطقه ی ما ، که حاصل گستردگی قتل عام پوریم بود، افسانه های اشکانیان و ساسانیان و زردشت و اوستا و مزدک و مانی را بر هم انباشته اند، جاعلانه کتیبه های ساسانی حک کرده اند، برای کورش در یک کشتزار چغندر، با دزدی از مصالح مسجد مسلمین، شهرک پاسارگاد ساخته اند، صدها خیانت دیگر در پراکندن اسراییلیات در میان اسناد فرهنگی مسلمین مرتکب شده اند که حاصل آن تولید شکاف و ایجاد تفرقه و دشمنی در میان مسلمین بوده است و گفتم که آن سبوی به شدت محافظت شده ی پوریم به همت تحقیقات مجموعه ی «تاملی در بنیان تاریخ ایران»، از دست یهودیان رها شده و شکسته است و اینک خردمندان منطقه ی ما از محتویات متعفن آن باخبرند.
- برای استحکام اين نظر کافی است به نخستين دست ساختههای اسلامی در شرق ميانه و از جمله به نمونهی سفالهايی توجه کنيم که در قرن دوم هجری در نيشابور، بغداد و سامره توليد شده اند. (پورپیرار، حجت بر همه ی ما تمام است؟! 2/6/ 1384)
- پس بدانید که سازنده ی تحرک اجتماعی دروغین، در دو هزار سال فاصله ی میان پوریم تا صفویه یهودیان اند، قصد اختفای نسل کشی کهن خویش را داشته اند و در این مورد از شگرد دروغ بافی غول آسا و غیر قابل مقاومت پیروی کرده اند ( پورپیرار/ مدخلی بر ایرانشناسی ... ( ۳۸ ) مورخ ۸/۱۲/۸۵)
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- D. Ahmadi, Hezarehaye Por Shokooh, Foruhar Publishing House, 2007
