Forgot Nowrooz

Forgot Nowrooz

Below is a response I gave to J Cox in this article:

I found your summary of the Iranian history rather annoying. To begin with, Iranians are not to be "feared". I found your depiction of Iranian as "feared" as insulting. You seem to be totally oblivious of the Iranian Spirit that has motivated, a peaceful union amongst the Iranian people, and the various ethnic groups for thousand years. It was the very essence of the Iranian Spirit as enshrined in our Holy Book The Zend Avesta, that has keep Iran for so long. Iranian Peace was Cosmological. We were the first to unite the world along Cosmological Principles, and our Empires are a testimony to that. Pax Iranica was based on Nowrooz, but you forgot Nowrooz, and that is why folks like you need to be updated.

What do you think motivated the likes of Cyrus the Great to be the First Human Being to free the Jews. Why do you think that Alexander the Great wanted to come to Iran? Again if you read the Iranian version in the Epic of the Kings by Ferdowsi, you will see that he lay claim to the Throne of the World, because his was the son of the Persian Emperor. He was seen and recognised by the Iranian generals, who accepted the fact that he was half Iranian.

Sounds crazy, but Christians owe their identity to the Iranian Astrologers (known as Magi) who had predicted that the delineations of the Planets would bring Jesus Christ. Our science was second to none, and I am not about to give you a list a mile long to prove it to you.

As with regard to your understanding of Islam, you completely forgot the role of an Iranian High Priest Astrologer called Salman Parsi, who saw used saw the advance of Proselytizing Christians into Iran, and found that another branch of Abraham's family lived in Yemen, and helped Halabi Qureshi to win and become known as Mohammed on the day that an Eclipse turned day into night.

What Salman did to Iran, has left Iran, and the world, with nothing but ashes, as he totally obliterated all the Art and Literature of the civilized world held in the Sassanian Empire in Iran, all for just one book.

But still the Iranian Spirit managed to live again. Nowrooz has kept Iranians, just like it does today, for at least ten thousand years. We Iranians celebrate Life, and we do not respect dogma. Iran's problems today take root from the a person called Al-Hilli. Again you completely missed that part of Iranian history. When Hulagu invaded present day Iraq and Iran, he was determined to shake the myth of Islam. Why? Because the priests thought that their "Allah" was invincible. And he is depicted as the "devil" himself by all Islamic scholars for obvious reasons.

But look at the Mongul invasion as a blessing in disguise. You completely missed the most culturally important part of Iran. Like the moment when Alexander brought Iranian and Greek culture together, to bring upon a Peace that the world had not seen for thousands of years, the Monguls did the same. The exchange of minds between the Greeks and Iranians, and between the Chinese and the Iranians produced Art and Science, that surpassed all standards of the world. No Christian, Jewish, or Moslem historian will tell you this.

Going back to Al-Hilli. Iran had at that time Nestorian Christian, Bhuddist rulers. They all tolerated Iranian Art, and our greatest poets were born then. Look up Hafez for example. Is there anything in what he writes to be feared. But Al-Hilli and his fanatical doctrine impressed the Mongul King who decided to allow so called "descendants of Mohammed" called Seyyeds to live and proselytise in Iran. And they have grown since then to become a very potent force. But the Kings of Iran fought the Seyyeds all the time, and kept them at bay - even the Safavids.

As for your analysis of current affairs. Again totally wrong. Iran can claim its Righteousness from the world, if and only the world recognised, that the people of Iran have totally ignored the Seyyeds in recent elections. The Seyyeds have no respect for what it means to be Iranian.

When you spoke of Khomeini, you forgot to mention his sense of righteousness. He lays claim to be descended from Mohammed. So what? Why should we Iranians care. Every Iranian can lay claim to be the son of Zoroaster and Cyrus the Great.

Your analysis was completely wrong when you stated that the Shah sent Khomeini to France. Khomeini was not in Iran, Saddam to sent him to France. It was the French who together with the US Democrats thought that Khomeini could be like Pope John Paul a bastion against Communism. And the French have reaped good dividends in Iran. No one believed the Shahanshah when he stated quite clearly that Khomeini represented both Black and Red. Khomeini and his Seyyeds identify with Salman Parsi, so much that they want to build a dam called Salman Farsi, to flood the very ancient heritage of Iran.

Mr Cox, if you wish to help Iran, then do this. Please do not use Iran as a tool to fight the neocons. If you want to help Iran, then help Iranians in understanding what any young democracy needs to learn. What we Iranians have not learnt as a new democracy, is that the people can topple any force with non-participation.

And it must be said that the Iranian population did not wholeheartedly participate in the recent "Seyyed Elections". But was this openly and loudly publicized? Did you mention it? You even hinted that it was some sort of democracy. How can you even consider this election, when you so vehemently denounced any form of election in the time of Shahanshah?

So it is clear that if the world media wanted to, they could ask the right questions, and topple the Seyyeds. They stand on very shaky ground, and if the world press and asked Ahmadinejad, "what would you do if an Iranian did not bring you fresh bread tomorrow?" Just think of the war of words; that would ensue; if the media of the world continuously bombarded the Seyyeds with these question; that would eventually bring them down, just like the General Strikes have brought so many zeolots around the world.

This form of Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) is not new. As a Liberal you know the power of this indestructible force. But the people of Iran are a young democracy. The demographic distribution of Iran is potentially explosive. And the major international companies in the world know the huge potential a new Iran can have.

The last thing the world is new competition from Western Asia. They know what East Asia did. The whole of the area of the world, that used to run the world for thousands of years can totally overwhelm the world, and the last thing the existing status-quo wants is to fight that trade war. So what better than to keep Iran as it is, or better still make it into a complete pariah state. But little do they know that we have close to four million very rich, very well educated Iranians outside Iran, who love Iran, and will not allow their country be plundered by aliens from within or without, because we have not forgotten the Spirit of Nowrooz.