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 …

  South Azerbaijan Question in Evolution: Identity, Society, and Regional Security-By Emil Aslan Souleimanov and Josef Kraus Iranian Azerbaijanis have historically been considered the country’s most loyal ethno-linguistic 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 …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, May 22 Today is the twelfth anniversary of the bloody uprising of South Azerbaijani people against Fars Chauvinism on 22nd of  May 2006. Following years of mistreatment and discrimination at the hands of the Iranian government, on May 12, 2006, an Iranian newspaper with the name of “IRAN …

Saudi Arabia and Iran Battle It Out in Azerbaijan-BY   JAMES M. DORSEY The bitter rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran is going on a trip outside the Middle East. It’s the pot calling the kettle black. As Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of seeking to encircle the kingdom with its support for …

Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Dec 24 Mr. Behrouz  Sari the Director of Climatology of  Tabriz  University expressing that more than 90% of the Lake Urmia has dried up and Confirmed: “There is a meaningful connection between the dust emission   of Lake and Air Pollution of Azerbaijan regions.” Mr. Behrouz  Sari added that  according …

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 …

Baku, North Azerbaijan ,Dec 9 Mr.Arthur Aghajanova the historian and professor of the State University of Armenia, in a press conference stated that Nagorno-Karabakh region is considered as an integral part of North Azerbaijan and this region belongs to North Azerbaijan.He added that religion and language Conflict between Armenian and North …

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 …

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 …