Tabriz,South Azerbaijan, Mar 4 Bahraini security forces informed  on Saturday that they had arrested 116 people accused of belonging to a “terror” cell allegedly linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards,Times of Israeli reported. An official statement on state news agency BNA said that security services had in the process thwarted a number …

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 11 August 2018 Index: MDE 13/8889/2018 Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release activist Ebrahim Nouri, as well as anyone else still arbitrarily detained after the arrest of around 120 people in connection with two separate Azerbaijani Turkic cultural gatherings that took …

Domestic unrest: Iran’s worst nightmare-By: Keyvan Salami The threats posed by Iran in the Middle East through its support for terrorism, extremism and Islamic fundamentalism are undeniable. Its continued backing of various militias has established for Tehran a so-called Shiite crescent across the region. Growing domestic unrest, especially after the …

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 …