Trial of Dehbashi for Historiography
Hossein Dehbashi, a historian and researcher whose oral history works have always been well-received by audiences, announced his conviction, not the publisher National Library and Ministry of Culture, to six months of imprisonment and the preparation of an eighty-page research booklet criticizing and analyzing the monarchy system by publishing the court ruling and its annexes, including a letter from the Leader’s office, which ordered action against the publisher and the legal authority for issuing the license for Dehbashi’s oral history book series.
However, a noteworthy point is why, after about three years since this process and the Ministry of Intelligence’s directive, they remembered to file a complaint.
In any case, such coercive actions against cultural figures will have the opposite and non-cultural effects.
History is essentially an unchangeable phenomenon that no authority or power can ultimately combat, and merely because some people in power dislike parts of it, it cannot be altered to any individual or powerful figure’s preferred model with such approaches.
Governments seek to change history in their desired form, and historians pay the price for this desire of the rulers.
If only those in power would read history for lessons, not for power.
History denies stability – Fernando Pessoa