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Azerbaijan goes on distorting history on the state level, reads an article published on the Iranian outlet Qafqaz.ir.

According to the information, the head of the Azerbaijani presidential administration Ramiz Mehdiyev’s book “Nader Shah Afshar: diplomacy talks” was recently published in Baku.

Referring to the policy of Azerbaijan directed at falsifying the history on the state level and appropriating the Iranian cultural values and historical figures, the Iranian outlet writes that during the presentation of Mehdiyev’s book, the head of the institute of history of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Yaqub Mahmudov, said, “Some forces try to label the historic figures of Azerbaijan. We must take into account that the Azerbaijani kings have ruled over modern Iran and its adjoining territories.”

Goharbakhsh Aliyeva, the head of the Middle East fund of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, said that Nader Shah Afshar had ideas of Turkic unity (Pan-Turkism, according to the Iranian outlet), and has made a great contribution to the state government system of Azerbaijan.

Protesting against Azerbaijan's policy of falsifying Iran's history, Qazqaz.ir writes, ''The distortion of the history by the Azerbaijani top officials show that they have no facts – the Azerbaijanis are not able to show a single historic document. All the international and historic documents indicate that Nader Shah was an Iranian Shah. Nader Shah chose Mashhad as the capital of the country and issued a coin to mark the occasion.''

''Nader Shah (1688-1747), like several Iranian Shahs, was Turkic-language, but being Turkic-language does not mean to be Turkic,'' the author of the article writes.

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