Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Nov 7 At least eight Iranian border guardsmen were killed in the incidents occurred in the children border area on Friday evening 3 Nov. the incidents happened when a group of Kurdish PJAK militants attacked their posts in the Chaldran region located in the western countryside of the West …
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Why isn’t West concerned of Armenia’s weakness, but worried about Azerbaijan’s power?
Why isn’t West concerned of Armenia’s weakness, but worried about Azerbaijan’s power? By Elchin Mehdiyev The paradoxical and illogical actions taken by Armenia’s government are no longer surprising. The crackdown on a rally held this morning by the hapless Armenian citizens is another evidence of this. Armenians were protesting because …
Read More »Iran Denounces Environmental Issues and Human Rights Violations in South Azerbaijan
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 …
Read More »South Azerbaijan Question in Evolution;Identity, Society, and Regional Security
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 …
Read More »IRAN: RELEASE AZERBAIJANI TURKIC MINORITY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DETAINED FOR PEACEFUL CULTURAL GATHERINGS
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 …
Read More »Death to Khamenei and Khomeini banners unfurls in South Azerbaijan-Tabriz city (video)
Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, June 15 South Azerbaijan national activists unfurled a banner with a content of “Cursing Khomeini, Death to Khamenei “at the Kasai Expressway in South Azerbaijan-Tabriz city. The banner “Damn Khomeini, Death to Khamenei”, which is about 10 meters in length, which hanged on Friday (June 16th) at …
Read More »South Azerbaijan Question in Evolution: Identity, Society, and Regional Security
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 …
Read More »The Growing Crisis of Migration from South Azerbaijan to Persian Regions
Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, June 9 The pattern of displacement of the population of Iran shows that all areas of South Azerbaijan are faced with a population migration crisis. The Iranian Statistics Center traces the number of “Provincial Immigration” from 2011 to 1395 in the form of an info-graphic. According to …
Read More »The Arg Ali-Shah of South Azerbaijan is Exposed to ِِDestruction
Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, June 5 The images published on social networks show that the campus area of the Arg-Alishah Tabriz is in unfavorable conditions. The majority of social networking users by publishing these pictures, write: The Arg Ali-Shah of Tabriz is fully targeted by the mass mafia attack and Iranian …
Read More »The 12th Anniversary of the Bloody Uprising of the South Azerbaijani People against Fascism on May 2006
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 …
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