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“Azerbaijan distorts history in three directions,” the head of Aran research center and expert on Political geography, Mohammad Reza Kaffash Jamshid, said, according to the Iranian outlet Arannews.ir.

During a scientific conference on “Azerbaijan’s policy of distorting history based on anti-Iranianism” held in the University of Tabriz, the Iranian scientist delivered a speech, singling out three directions of how Baku distorts the history.

A. Books written by foreign researchers on Azerbaijan’s order, like Graeme Wilson’s “Ilham: Portrait of a President.”

B. Books written by high officials of Azerbaijan Republic, like the head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration Ramiz Meydiyev’s books.

C. Books compiled for the public schools pupils, “Ata Yurdu” (Grandfathers’ Homeland), for instance.

Kaffash Jamshid, the Iranian researcher, drew a special attention to the latter direction and expressed his concern for those books being written for fifth-grade pupils.

“This book lacks any scientific ground and contains an unprecedented quantity of materials of anti-Iranian nature. The circumstance that this book may create a reputation of a bloodsucker and murderer for Iran among the Azerbaijani youth is of particular concern,” Mohammad Reza Kaffash Jamshid said.

Serious controversies have emerged in the Iran-Azerbaijan relations over the recent years regarding cultural and historical issues. According to the Iranian side, besides presenting the Iranian poet Nizami Ganjavi and Nader Shah as “Azerbaijanis”, Azerbaijan also appropriates Iranian cultural values, such as the musical instrument tar, sport polo and the festival Shab-e Yalda (Night of Yalda), among others, provoking the Iranian officials and artists’ discontent and anger.

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