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 …

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 …

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 …

  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, 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 …

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 …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, May 15 The Taliban briefly overrun a district in western Afghanistan’s Farah Province bordering Iran, just days after the insurgents killed several Afghan security forces in another district in the province. With Farah teetering on the brink of collapse, Afghan officials blame the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) for …

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 …

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 …