On remarks of Prof.Hashimzade on Mussadegh

[Azadan Januspar]

Prof. Dr. Ayghun Attar Hashimzade is a historian which is said to be known with his works about Azerbaijan, Iran, Armenian Terror and Ottoman-Safevid Rivalry. And ethnic structure of Iran is one of his works. As you may recall he posseses a work name of Ethnic Structure of Iran which was announced as a source in another thread:
steppes.proboards23.com/index.cgi?board=board13&action=display&thread=895

The thing about his remarks in his book which Yabghu Altar excessively used and of course helped us read it better by magnifying it, is the book's reference to a work by an Iranian author; H.E Chehabi Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism, I.B Tauris LTD Publishers, London 1990

I personally was suspicious of the remark and said that I was going to open a thread regarding this, in which it is allegedly said that Dr.Mussadegh one of the prominent figures of contemporary Iran declared himself a Turk and a Turk Nationalist while being questioned in court, thus identifying himself as a Turk, and it was quoted or better saying misquoted from Dr.Chehabi's work by Dr.Aygun Attar Hashimzade. After trying to check the credibility of this quotation even with Dr.Chehabi himself, it turned out that Dr.Attar Hashizmade misquoted this for some reasons as you may know while writing about such a political topic like ethnic structure and history of Iran.

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

We would like to see more details. Like, what the original quote was like, and what changes were made.

[Azadan Januspar]

As I told you before I don't have access to Dr.Chehabi's work but fortunately the book is availabe on google book and you can simply search for the key words like Turk or Turkish in it.

Most importantly I haven't left myself only to that and tried asking Dr.Chehabi himself here is the response he finally gave me:

"Thank you for your concern for my reputation. I did not answer your question because I am a busy man. I answered your initial question, but this did not mean that I wished to engage in a correspondence with you.

I just checked all the references to Mosaddeq in my book, and found nothing that might corroborate that story. The world is full of fools, and being misquoted by someone who ultimately does not matter much is the least of my worries.

All the best,"

moral of the story: Never rely on sources with misquotations and lies and go far insulting and try to relate it to eye problems and stuff, relying on such source hehe.
This professor Aygun Attar Hashimzade seems to hold a kind of contemporary Iranian surname, is it possible that his one of the Azerbaygani so-called theorists?

[ALTAR]

Thanks to Azadan for putting Dr. Chehabi's explanation.

I should agree that It is useful for enlightening the topic. I had a small role about it because I translated the part about Musaddegh in the book from Turkish to English and sent to him with P.M.

I think it shows moral and honesty from my side. I hope any other people also can take it from their lives but I'm suspicious about it.

I dissaprove Mr.Hashimzade for distorting Dr. Chahabi's work.

However,

I defend my ideas not with only one source. I think other sources that I put are also important and no opposite about them. So that I still defend my claims.

Regards

[Azadan Januspar]

Well you may feel free defending your claim for Mossadeq's identifying himself a Turk. Moreover your other sources were speaking of Mossadeq's ability to speak Turkish not the Turkish identity. As I expressed before he wasn't the only one with that ability, you may wonder that even Reza Shah Pahlavi also spoke Turkish fluently and he and Ataturk needed no interpreter.

[kokturk]

Iran is a powerful and ancient state and if somebody could achieve to be the PM of Iran, or president of Iran; then he should feel and adopt himself to Iran and Iranian identity. Seljuk dynasty or Safavid dynasty, who are ethnically Turks with no doubt used Persian as state language. So, if somebody governs Iran, then he/she will be Iranian.