Baku, North Azerbaijan, Feb 5 “Pakistan and North Azerbaijan are important strategic partners and the cooperation between the two countries is developing on an upward trend,” Ambassador of Pakistan to Azerbaijan Saeed Khan Mohmand said at the event dedicated to the Kashmir Solidarity Day, held in Baku. He said that …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 3 A group of southern Azerbaijan environmental activists created a campaign to “save the Urmia lake” The Signatures collected during  this campaign will be sent to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Lake Urmia, the largest lake in the Middle East and one of the unique ecosystems of the …

Baku, North Azerbaijan, Dec. 27 Pakistan condemns the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia and refuses to recognize Armenia as a state, said Deputy Chairman of Pakistan’s Senate Molana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri. He made the remarks at an international conference, titled “2017 – Year of Islamic Solidarity: Interfaith and Intercultural …

21 AZER – A MOMENTOUS POPULAR MOVEMENT IN SOUTH AZERBAIJAN- By:Akram Rahimli The 21 Azer* movement (the 12 December 1945 revolution) is seen as the culmination of the national-democratic movement in Southern Azerbaijan (Iran). The Mashruta revolution of the early 20th century (1905-1911) and the subsequent Khiyabani movement (1917-1920) were …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Nov 3 A park in Kazan city of Tatarstan was named after Tabriz”, said Mir Etemad Emadi, the general manager of Public & international relations of Tabriz municipality . Following the articles of sisterhood contract between Tabriz and Kazan, the municipal administrators of two cities were committed to name one …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Jun 28  Branch 7 of the Appeals Court in Eastern Azerbaijan province for correction  cases of Hussein Ali Mohammadi and Taha Kermani   referred  to  lower court. According to report of HRANA (Human Right Activist News Agency), on Monday 22th of June 2015, Branch 7 of the Appeals Court in Eastern Azerbaijan …

Azerbaijanis remain skeptical of Rouhani’s Tabriz visit- By:Farzin Farzad Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was in the city of Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, on May 20 to garner support for the nuclear negotiations, as a predominantly ethnic Azerbaijani crowd of 40,000 gathered in Takhti Stadium to watch Rouhani speak of national unity and express his …

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 …

South Azerbaijani political prisoners talk about horrors they faced in Iranian prisons – Horrors of prison “They removed my tongue, when they saw I did not speak”  “They spread quince oil on my body and set rats on me”  Baku. Konul Jafarli – APA. “I was made to stand for …