Neo-Iranians: The Case of Azeri Turks
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With the fall of Byzantine or East Roman Empire in 14 century a branch
of Oghuz Turks entered Iran and built the Saffavid dynasty in Iran.
Byzantine was a Greek-Roman civilization and was replaced by Ottoman
Turks.
The Oghuz Turks who entered Iran are called Azeri Turks as they
occupied North-West region of Iran or Azerbaijan province. Most of the
natives of Azerbaijan were either killed or driven away from the area.
These natives of Iran were Kurds who still live as neighbors of Azeri
Turks in Norther west Iran.
In addition to killing Kurds in North West Iran, the Azeri Turks also
murdered millions of native Zoarastrians and imposed a branch of Islam
called Shia Islam which had very little following except in Lebanon
and Bahrain with Persian Gulf.
The Saffavids had very little support from the Persians and other
native population of Iran and were viewed with extreme hostility by
the natives of Iran.
The Saffavids ruled between 15 century to 1722. The capital of
Saffavids was in Isfahan. A combination of conspiracy within the
Saffavids state by Persians in alliance with Afghans from Kandhar
resulted in an attack by Afghan tribes from Kandahar and sacking the
Saffavids capital in 1722. It also resulted in the mass murder of
Azeri Turk Saffavids in Isfahan by Afghans and Persians. The Afghans
were led by Mir-Wais Hotak the Chief of Gizali tribe in Afghanistan.
Persians were led by Karim Khan Zand from the Lur tribe. This ended
the Saffavid rule in Iran in 1722.
Mir-Wais Hotak Khan from Kandahar was called "The Protector of Persian
Empire" by Afghans and Persians. A Swedish officer working for Mir-
Wais Hotak's family in Kandahar describes these events in a book
published in London in 1724. Karim Khan Zand from Lor tribe ruled
parts of Iran for some period in 17th century.
With the fall of Saffavids in 17 century, Persia was ruled by Afghans.
Later an Afghan Empire appeared under the leadership of Duranis.
In 18 century Azeri Turks built another dynasty called the Qajars. As
Azeri Turks are hated very much in Iran, so the Qajars decided to have
a new identity to call themselves. Due to their contacts with
Europeans and finding out about ancient Aryan tribes which existed in
the region for thousand years ago, the Qajars adopted the name
"Iranian" to call themselves in order to associate themselves with
these ancient aryan tribes.
"Iranian" is just a name adopted from European books in 18 century
Europe. As the name "Iranian" actually comes from Europe to Iran, it
makes a lot of sense to today's Europeans and Americans. But as we
will see the name "Iranian" does not make any sense to the natives of
Iran.
To the natives of Iran, the "Iranian" identity is entirely unknown.
The natives of Iran identify themselves either as Moslems or with the
city or region that they reside. The combination of Moslem and
location completely identifies a person's identity such as race,
culture and language. That is why the term "Iranian" is meaningless
term to the natives of Iran as it does not specify any information
about race, culture or language or generally the ethnicity of an
individual.
To Azeri Turks the "Iranian" identity is very important as they can
use it to cover and hide their ehtnicity. "Iranian" gives the
impression as if there is an ethnic group called "Iranian" in Iran.
There is no such ethnic group in Iran called "Iranian". There are no
"Iranians" in Iran. Also "Iranian" is used to present as if Azeri
Turks were involved in ancient history of Persia. Azeri Turks have
created a whole new imaginary history of Iran based on the invented
name "Iranian".
The Nobel Prize Winner, Iranian Shirin Ebadi claims: "I am an Iranian,
descendant of Cyrus the Great, the Leader of Iranian Empire" in a
speech in Oslo, Norway when she was receiving her Nobel Prize in
Peace. This is an entirely ficticious history of Iran where the term
Persian has been replaced by Iranian. Azeri Turks as citizens of Iran
have suddenly become participants of ancient history of Persia.
There has been a Persian Empire and a Parthian Empire. But no history
books have reported any "Iranian Empire". Iran had different names
under different periods. Iran has been called Khorasan for a thousand
year. There is a mention of "Land of Iran" by Ferdowsi in 10th century
A.D. in his book Shahnameh. For Ferdowsi "The Land of Iran" is the
present day Afghanistan, Samarkhand and Bokhara in Uzbekistan and Merv
in Turkemenstan and Tus in Khorasan. There is no mention of Tabriz,
Isfahan or Tehran. Also there is no mention of "Iranian" in his book.
In reality there was no "Land of Iran" as his book is only based on
epic stories and not real history.
Today, Azeris using the "Iranian" name are making territorial claims
on parts of Afghanistan, Turkey and Iraq Recently they even have
started talking about Armenians as Iranians too.
"Iranian" identity had no significance in Iran. Nobody in Iran
addressed another native with the name Iranian.The name "Iranian"
assumed a signifcance after the formation of Islamic Republic of Iran
in 1979. The Islamic Republic of Iran or Azeri Turk Republic of Iran
is a second version of the Saffavids from 15 century.
As the Azeri Turk Republic of Iran started to confront hostilities by
the natives of Iran, it started desperately to use the invented
"Iranian" identity to be able to promote its agenda and find a social
base with the natives of Iran.
On other hand the natives have abandoned the use of the term "Iranian"
and have started to call themselves with their ethnic affiliation.
The natives of Iran identify themselves as Persians, Kurds, Lurs,
Baloochs, Turcoman, Qashqaii, Bakhtiary, Gilani, Mazandarani,
Khorasani (Khorasanis are mostly Afghans). As Azeris always hide their
ethnic identity, the only ones who are recognized as Iranians are
actually Azeri Turks themselves.
The ancient aryan tribes have developed into specific ethnicities and
none of them use the name "Iranian". Bactrians are actually Afghans
with Bactrian origin which could be a Pashtoon or a Dari speaking
Afghan. Also Persians are still called Persians. There are remnants of
Parthians in Khorasan and they are identified as either Persians or
Afghans. The descendants of Scythians or Sakas are called Nuristanis
in Afghanistan. Medes have developed into Kurds.
Several methods are used by Iranians (Azeris) to confuse the natives
of Iran about the origin of "Pure Iranians Azeris".
Iranians claim that :
1. Persians are mixed with Arabs due to arab invasion in 6 century
A.D.
2. Iranians and Persians are the same people.
3. You can not tell apart an Azeri Turk from a Persian.
4. Iran is not a tribal nation anymore but it is now a "beautiful
Azeri Turk Iranian Nation".
5. There is an "Iranian Race" which is a mix of "Persians,Azeri
Turks,Mongols,Arabs and Africans".
6. All citizens of Iran are members of the "Iranian Race" and all
Look "Iranian".
7. "Iranians" speak diferent languages and have different political
views but all look the same.
8. Persians were related to Persian Empire. Because there is no
Persian Empire then there are no Persians either.
9. Persians have Blond Hair and Blue Eyes. According to this criteria,
then there are no Persians in Iran.
10. Reversing Nationality with ethnicity: Persian is nationality. The
whole Middle East and Central Asia is Persian. Anybody speaking
Persian language is "Persian". Iranian is ethnicity. Iranian is a
race!!!!
To clear these false statements it is necessary to point out that
Arabs have gene marker Haplogroup Eu 10. Nobody in Iran has this gene
marker. In addition to that Arabs have their own sub-racial type
different from both the natives and Azeri Turks. Consequently nobody
is ethnically related to Arabs.
Persians are not a homogenous group and Persian is not a race. Natives
of Iran have different origin. In anthropology Persians are defined as
either Cromagnid with native origin or Nordic with Aryan origin (Iran:
%35 Persian). Iranians are Azeri Turks and are defined as dinaric
alpine (Iran: 40% Azeri). Those are entirely different people and
belong to different subracial types. Due to propoganda by the regime
all Iranians imagine they are Persians. That is not the case. The
Persians and Iranians have entirely different cultures. Persians
culture is related to ancient Persia, Central Asia and Afghanistan.
Iranian Culture is related to Turks in Anatolia and Caucasus.
The Neo-Iranians are the Azeri Turks. Other names that Azeri Turk are
called are Saffavids (insurgent groups in Iraq call Azeris for
Saffavids). Also Azeris are known as Qizilbash (Red Hat) both in
Afghanistan and Iraq. Qizilbash are the remnants of Saffavids army in
Iraq and Afghanistan. A famous Qizilbash in Iraq is Mr. Mughtada Al
Sadr who originates from the Saffavids Qizilbash army in 15 century in
Iraq.
Another fraud scheme is inventing the name "Iranic". Nobody knows what
is "Iranic" but using this term Azeris claim that the "Ottoman Empire
was an "Iranic Empire" !!!!!
As most of the Azeri Turk or "Iranians" fruad schemes have failed,
they are considering to change the name of the country Iran to Persia
so they can start with a new fraud scheme called "Neo-Persians". That
is Azeri Turks are planning to call themselves "Persians". So far all
of their fruad schemes have failed and Azeri Turks remain Azeri Turks
or Iranians.
To confuse people, Azeri Turks always write Iranian/Persian meaning
these are the same people. This is only fraud.
The correct way to write Iranian is "Iranian/Azeri/Qizilbash/
Saffavid".
Azeris are welcome to use the name "Iranian" but none of natives of
Iran will use the "Iranian Identity". Azeri Turks are the only "Pure
Iranians".