Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Nov 13 AbdolHamid Ismail Zahi, better known as Molavi AbdolHamid, the Friday prayer leader in Zahedan and perhaps Iran’s most prominent Sunni leader gave a reportage to a state news agency on Sunday 12th of Nov. He strongly warned government about ethnic disputes and stated:”  Iran has neither a nation, …

  The distinguished Ahwazi Arab political activist, Ahmad Mola, was brutally murdered outside his home in the Netherlands on Wednesday. Indications suggest that the killers, who killed him instantly with three shots in the head and twice in the chest, were Iranian regime assassins. Although some reports claim that the killers were …

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,Nov 5 Mr. François Sénémaud, the ambassador of France in Tehran has visited Tabriz  one of the historical cities of South Azerbaijan. He visited the Tabriz central museum and many different historical palaces. He also visited the Tabriz carpets in Tabriz carpet exhibition and stated: “ the most famous …

Biography of Sattar Khan (The Azerbaijani National Commander)  Sattar Khan (The Azerbaijani National Commander)  was born orn at Janali village of Garadag province in 1868 in a merchant family. Sattar khan had became a great general of the Mashruts movement which took place in 1905-11. Sattar Khan, who was heading the …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Nov 4  Many South Azerbaijani national activists from Tehran, Karaj, Urmia and Tabriz cites were gathered for the Fateha and pay tribute to grave of Sattar Khan (the Azerbaijani National Commander) in anniversary of Death.However, Police and intelligence forces  prevented the activists to continue the death anniversary ceremony at the …

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 …

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jun 25 The First Defeat for the Expansion of the Revolution to the Republic of Azerbaijan Following Disintegration of the Soviet Union Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly emerged Republic of Azerbaijan became the first target in security doctrine of the Islamic Republic. Iran has …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Jun 25 The US-based Azeri-Iranian channel GünAz TV, whose mandate is to create awareness of the plight of Azeri people living in northern Iran, is working to return to Türksat after its sudden removal from the satellite in 2006. In an exclusive interview with Today’s Zaman, Ahmed Obalı, the …