May 2

Destruction of Culture and Psychology as a Result of the Migration of Under-Developed people

Bughabish (Bagabish), the Persian general, who in March of 514 BC, crossed the Sea of Marmara (Turkish: Marmara Denizi), with army consisted of 81,000 soldiers, in order to drive away the under-developed tribes of Southeast Europe from nearing the Iranian borders, divided his forces into two parts, and on the second of May of the same year, sent one part to Macedonia and assigned the other to conquer the Trakia area (Thrace) in Bulgaria and the Danube Delta. This expedition took place upon the orders of Darius the Great. The intention of Darius, like Cyrus the Great, was to keep away tribes and people with under-developed culture and civilization from Iranian borders so that the advanced culture and civilized behavior of Iranians were not harmed. The army of Bughabish conquered the Danube Delta region, including the present day Romania and advanced up to present day Ukraine. Infiltration of the same tribes from Northeast Asia into Iran in the 8th and 9th century AD, continuing until the 13th century (after fall of the Sassanid dynasty), and before that, into Russia and South Eastern Europe; changed the culture and psychology of the people of these regions and were the cause of civil wars, backwardness and instability. Selfishness, flattery, lying and discord have roots in these migrations, which the Iranian governments had prevented from penetrating into Iran before the 7th century AD.          Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour

The Request Put by Indian Parsees – Massacre of Zoroastrians in the Safavid period

Despite ruthless massacre of Iranian Zoroastrians (pure Persians) in the Safavid period, especially in the 17th century AD, and their diminution from a few million to a few thousand, on 2 May 1932, on the 5th days of his stay in Tehran, Dinshah Irani, the then Director of the Anjuman of Indian Parsees, first praised the provoking of Iranian patriotic feelings and their interest to know about their past, and their pure Iranian morale, and then requested the government of Iran to let the Parsees, who had forcibly left their country in the 7th and 8th centuries AD and mainly settled in India but always considered themselves Iranian (Persian) and were faithful to Iran and had furthered the unique trait and the development and progress of their ancestors’ land by building schools and hospitals and also investing in industry and agriculture. He then spoke, in detail, about the achievements of India which was the result of the efforts, skills and financial investment of Parsees. As a result, the then government authorities promised to provide these facilities, but …. Because in those days India (the whole peninsula) was British colony and the latter government did not favor transfer of Parsees - capital, which was being used to industrialize India, outside this peninsula, partly to Iran.     Shah Abbas I transferred most of the Zoroastrians of Kerman, whom Ganjali Khan, the then governor of Kerman, had decided to kill, to Isfahan. These were the Iranians who transformed Isfahan into “a world of art, famous as Half-of-the-World (nesf e Jahan)” and equipped the Iranian army with artillery, but the successors of Shah Abbas Safavid, who had severe superstitious prejudice about their religion, accused Zoroastrians of being fire worshippers and killed many of them. Kerman, being far from the center of the Caliphate in Damascus and Baghdad, had the biggest Zoroastrian population, which continued this way until the rule of Ganjali Khan (beginning of the 17th century AD). Kermanis, who for centuries had Saljuq Turks, Kara Khitans and Moguls rule over them, did not learn even one Turkish word, which according to western historians, was the extreme of patriotism. Herodotus, the father of history writing, has written that the ancient Kermanis adopted the name “Kerman” from “Germaniol” (German race).           Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour