Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Jan 2 Over the years, ideological and discriminatory policies of Persia’s chauvinist regime across south Azerbaijan people  have caused  economic and national crises in the region. Consequently, these policies of the Iran regime have led mass protests  across Iran, especially in South Azerbaijan in recent days. It’s ongoing now. Following …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Dec 8 Water crisis in different parts of South Azerbaijan enters a new phase and this time the authorities announce the new environmental crises in South Azerbaijan-Zanjan city. General  directorate of  environmental protection of Zanjan Province stated that The Qizil-Uzen is drying day by day and  warning about the …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Dec 3  A tenth session of the forum, based on minority issues was organized by  the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland on the first of Dec 2017. In this meeting two of AHRAZ members represent South Azerbaijan and gave a speech about South Azerbaijan …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Dec 2 An article based on South Azerbaijan region has been published  by two researchers from Japan Dr. Kissoke Vakizaka and South Azerbaijani researcher  Dr. Karim Asghari in Japanese language  at the Research Center of  “Kafkassam “ in Turkey. According to Gunaz Tv (the official media of South Azerbaijan),  Dr. Karim Asghari …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Nov 6 The well known South Azerbaijani Professor, Mr. Ahmad Reza Jalali  was sentenced to death for refusing to request of  the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian security forces  for cooperation and military espionage for Iran’s regime. On Tuesday, October 24, Tehran’s prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced that a …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Oct.31 Thousands of South Azerbaijan people and fan of TRACTOR SAZI TABRIZ  have subjected to the racist decision of Iranian federation against Mehdi Kiaani the Tractor Sazi  football team‘s Captain on 29 Oct 2017. A widespread wave of protests get organized on social media, especially on Instagram pages with …

THE SOUTH AZERBAIJAN QUESTION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR IRANIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY- By:Alberto Priego, PhD Research From University of London, SOAS Since the establishment of the Republic of Azerbaijan after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijanis living in Iran have developed a stronger ethno-national identity, and that development has affected Tehran’s domestic …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, Nov 6 UNPO submitted a report on Iran to UPR Info, a non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This report is published three years after the Islamic Republic’s last UPR review in 2014 and looks at the country’s dismal record when it comes to environmental …

South Azerbaijanis have historically been considered the country’s most loyal ethnolinguistic minority. Predominantly Shiite, with religion being the most important source of collective identity, Turkophone Azerbaijanis had until the 1920s provided numerous dynasties to the Persian thrones. The rise of nationalism in the 20th century gradually breached the image of South …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, Oct 16 The non-Persian population like South Azerbaijan people in Iran geography has faced many problems that were accumulated even before the establishment of the Iran Islamic republic. The demands of the oppressed minorities surfaced immediately after the overthrow of the Shah regime in 1979. unfortunately, South Azerbaijan people witnessed …