Reza Shah made the Persian language official and imposed it on Iran
This absurd statement is also a consequence of the absurd claim of the past. The Persian language was always the first and official language of the court of Samanids, Saffarians, Ghaznavids, Shaddadians, Atabkans of Maragheh, Azarbaijan, Khwarazmshahs, Seljuks, Ilkhanids, Qajars, and dozens of dynasties of Iranian and Turkic descent ruling Iran. Only during the Safavid era, although the court language was Turkish, Persian was the written and official language of the country, and coins, books and historical documents are in this language.Even this language, as everyone knows, was the official language of Anatolia during the Seljuk period and even the beginning of the Ottoman period. And the Timurid and Mongol dynasties of India also had this language as the official language of their land. Although Joghtai Turkish gained strength during the Timurid period, it could never be recognized on par with the Persian language, and that language was gradually forgotten, as today Joghtai Turkish is considered a dead language.Just as Ottoman Turkish (the only important official language of Turkey) is also considered a dead language today, and of course the death of that language is the fault of Atatürk's policies, which we will read about at the end of this article.
But in relation to the Persian language and the law of its officialization in the country of Iran, the constitutional law should be mentioned. The text of the constitution and all constitutional documents are in Persian language.
Dr. Mashaullah Ajudani in his valuable book "Ya Merg Ba Tadajd" by giving a list of these newspapers such as "Kaghz Akhbar", "Oqay Meryz Adlieh", "Nizami", "Marikh", Sharaf", "Tarbit", "Tabriz" have shown with their special beauty and eloquence that the universal and "national" language in those years was nothing but Persian.
He also adds a valuable example to this study that the tribalists will not be very welcome, it is the report of Mohammad Amin Rasulzadeh, the first president of the Republic of Azerbaijan, who writes: "Here [Urmia], you can't except a few subscribers of Habal al-Mattin newspaper." Find another reader. Caucasian Turkish newspapers also have no buyers and readers here. It is not common to read Turkish here.
Although they are all Turks, they do not speak Turkish. This is the case everywhere in Azerbaijan. There are even some types who suggest this situation for the Caucasus as well and think that all the Islamic world should learn Persian and read in Persian. ... During the fifteen days I was in Urmia, I could not find a single buyer of a Turkish newspaper" or Death by Modernity, M. Adjudani, p. 222 to 225
Also, two anti-Iranian documents clearly show that the official language in Iran was approved during the Qajar era and the constitutional revolution, and not during Reza Shah's era:
In the book "Kurds: Culture and Language Rights" we read:
Iran's first constitution, adopted in 1906 by the Qajar dynasty (1925-1779), declared Persian the official language of the multilingual country, although until the Pahlavi dynasty came to power in 1925, the central government assumed power. Receipt. He was able to implement this condition efficiently.
In 1923, government offices were ordered to use Persian in all written and oral communication. In a circular issued by the Central Department of Education of Azerbaijan province to the education departments of the region, including the education of Mahabad city, it is stated: "By order of the Prime Minister, it has been decided that the Persian language should be introduced in all cases. Provinces, especially in schools. Therefore, you can inform all the schools under your jurisdiction to fully follow this and do all their affairs in Farsi language. , "Kurds: Culture and Language Rights", Kurdish Human Rights Project, 2004, page 72)
"The crisis in Iran came to a head in December 1905, when the Russian Revolution was already in full swing. A long series of disturbances, including Bast, an attempt to take asylum, in this case on the grounds of the British delegation, forced Shah Muzaffaruddin (1896-1907) to yield to the demands of the people like Nicholas. The second he had to do in Russia: on August 5, 1906, he signed a law declaring the Constitutionaccording to which the Majlis (Parliament) was to be elected on the basis of limited suffrage which mainly favored the clergy and market merchants. . The constitution included an article that made Persian the official language, acknowledging the historical competition of Iranian elements and leaving and moving away from the long-standing tradition of their coexistence in Iran. (Tadeusz Swietochowski. Russia and Azerbaijan: a borderland in transition. p. 29. ISBN: 0231070683)
As can be seen in this book, it is clearly stated that in the constitutional revolution, the Persian language will be approved as the official language of the country. Also, as mentioned, all constitutional documents are in Persian language. The manifesto of the open constitutional revolution itself was written in Farsi and not in any other language, nor was it translated into any other language at that time. Another foreign document on this matter:
In this book, the author of which also participates in pan-Turkist meetings, he clearly says that in the constitutional revolution, the Persian language becomes the official language of the country.
Therefore, the officiality of the Persian language both during the constitutional era and during the Islamic Revolution is a popular matter, and through the People's Assembly, this language is legally official. The Charter of the Constitutional Revolution is also only in Persian, and no other language is mentioned in the Constitutional Revolution, and the Iranian nation is mentioned everywhere.
Therefore, it is a lie that Reza Shah has made Persian the official language of the country! is a lie Persian language has always had a special place in Iran. It is enough that in the tomb of poets of Tabriz, except for Shahryar, all the other poets are Persian-speaking, and most of them were there before the Turkicization of Azerbaijan (people like Asdi Tousi, Qatran Tabrizi, Hammam Tabrizi, Khagani, etc., who also speak Turkic) were not).
