Jona Lendering is an anti-Iranian pseudohistorian

I found a jerk named Jona Lendering who is claiming to be a historian, but infact an anti-Iranian who is initiating some false attacks on Cyrus with his new activities. I have added these into his Wikipedia page. I duplicate it here for my further reference, as I know he or someone like him will remove it.

Criticism:

There were some criticism on Jona Lendering’s attempt to rewrite the history of Cyrus the Great and to label all who question his views as “imperial propaganda of the late Shah”. His views resemble the July 15, 2008 writings of Matthias Schulz in Spiegel Magazine which labeled the historical benevolence of Cyrus the Great as a “hoax”. He also extended criticism  in Wikipedia page of Cyrus the Great.

As a result,there was an online protest against him, in which in part of their petition they say:

Lendering dismisses the expertise of major world-class scholars such as
Professor Emeritus Richard Nelson Frye of Harvard University who have
over 40 years of research and publications to their credit. Lendering’s
claims of  being an “expert” of ancient Iran is contradicted by blatant
errors such as claiming that the Godarz II site  at Bisotun "does not
stand today" when in fact it does. The greatest concern however is that
Lendering abuses  the trust, hospitality and goodwill of the Iranian people
by making frequent trips to Iran and then returning from that country to
spread his racist views against Iran, Iranians, and Iranian history.

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