Dec 10

Conquest of Nineva: the day when the tyrant Assyrian empire was wiped out

This piece of history will be completely edited later          Nineva city (attached to the present day Mosul), the capital of the Assyrian empire, was conquered, as some say, on 14 December 612 BC by the united forces of and Median and Babylonian governments (south Mesopotamia) and the empire which is famous in history for tyranny, was wiped out forever. The victorious forces of Nineva leveled the city to ground so that it is never built again.     The longtime tyranny of the Assyrians towards the Iranian Medians and the Babylonians was the cause for annihilating Nineva. Since decades the Assyrians would attack the Medians and would take them captive for forced labor, and the wealth and power of the Assyrians were the result of this slavery system. Assyrian men had just one duty and that was to fight. When interpreting the Bible the Christian priests have written the destruction of Nineva as the will of God for overthrowing tyranny.     The Medians are one of the three Aryan clans who migrated almost simultaneously to the Iranian plateau and settled in a vast area from Rey and south Caucasia upto Ilamite (the whole of northwest Iran) with the center being Hamedan, and these three inter-related clans established a united Iran in 600 BC, the borders of which have been inscribed on stone and remaining from those times, and which historians call the ownership document of Iran and the only country that has such a document. At the same time, the Parthians settled in Khorasan and east of Mazandaran Sea and the Persians in the south and east of Iran (downwards from Rey upto Indus River and Kashmir meridian). The Medians, being neighbor with Assyrians, were constantly attacked by this tribe. In those days the biggest city of the Medians was Hekmataneh (Hamedan), which the Greek have pronounced as Ekbatana.     The invasions and cruelties of the Assyrians made the Medes establish a government that covered whole of northwest Iran and make Hamedan their capital, unite with the Babylon government who were also suffering from Assyrian attacks, and overthrow their empire. Assyrians were of Arab race. After the Assyrian empire collapsed the government of Hamedan transferred many Iranians to areas where Assyrians were settled so that the Assyrians would be in minority and not able to establish another government. The Iraqi, Syrian and Turkish Kurds are descendents of those transferred Iranians.     The Median government did not live long. Cyrus the Great, who was from a Median mother and Persian father, united the three Iranian clans (Medes, Parthian and Persian), whom the western historians call the south Aryans, and created the land of Iran. In general history, which is taught all over the world Kourosh (Cyrus = Siroos) is named as the father of Iran.          Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour (AmordadNews writer)