Nasser Pourpirar, was a famous Iranian writer and historical revisionist. He was known for his controversial theories questioning the academically recognized historiography of Iran from Achaemenids to the beginning of the Safavid period.
Pouripirar claimed that Purim was a genocide against indigenous civilised Iranianscommitted by the Achaemenid Shah Darius I and his Jewishallies. He claims that "after the great genocide committed by Jews in Purim, the land of Iran was completely wiped out of human beings until the beginning of Islam." He considered Behistun Inscription as a symbol of this genocide. He claimed that construction of Persepolis was never finished and that the Achaemenid dynasty was a group of ancient barbarian Slavic invaders that ended with Darius the Great after they returned to their homeland in the Eurasian steppes. The rest of the Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid, Tahirid, Ghaznavid, Seljuqid and Samanid dynasties according to Pourpirar were fabricated by historians of mostly Jewish background as part of a Jewish conspiracy. According to Pourpirar a few historic sites that are said to be Parthian are either clearly related to Greeks or are modern forgery. He claimed that all inscriptions said to be Sassanid are modern forgeries. He claimed that historical personalities such as Mazdak, Mani, Zoroaster, Babak, Abu Moslem, and Salman the Persian were invented by modern Jewish historians. Regarding the reliability of Iranian dynasties he wrote: "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."
Responses
The following books responded to Pourpirar's claims:
The glorious Millenaries, by Dariush Ahmadi. See also the book's weblog.
Twelve centuries of splendor, by Amir Limayi and Dariush Ahmadi
Cyrus and Babylon, by Houshang Sadeghi
The Veracity of ancient Persian and Arya (italic=yes, by Mohammad Taqi 'Ataii and Ali Akbar Vahdati.
The Glorious Millenaries: a website with collection of articles in response to Pourpirar
